I spent ten days in April in residence at a public school working with second graders. We brainstormed ideas for an installation, working with the theme: maps and globes. Fifty students participated in the project. Each contributed a small model of a city or building made with paper mache, paint, found packaging materials, fabrics, glitter and beads. The small models were attached to a giant globe model with a cave-like entrance on one side. Visitors could enter the installation, which resembled a model of the earth turned inside-out.
Earth Installation and Sculpture
Close up view of installation
One of the fifty individual parts added to the structure
Tom Sarver 