Modern Community Tree

I collaborated with some highly qualified school children, their teachers and parents at a local Chicago Montessori school. The children brought objects reflecting cultural heritage of their ancestors and showed them to the camera. Working together they choose their backdrop, became the sun by holding the flash and pressed the shutter. Once the work was printed we got out our trusty scissors, glue and string to make the portrait ovals. Sticks from the shoreline of the Chicago river, sanded and wrapped in colorful yarn, blended the youthful faces with natural nesting materials.