Foil Figures in Action Family Art Workshop with Dr. Judith Peck

A Project for Family and School Situations

Participants are guided to create two figures in aluminum foil engaged in some conflict in their relationship. Figures might be fighting, sporting, embracing, bullying or otherwise engaged and positioned in a mode of attack or withdrawal, their stance revealing such emotions as anger, fear, love, loneliness or betrayal. Guided discussion of the problem follows in a team of two from the group: the artist and the questioner. The artist afterwards moves one or both figures towards a resolution. (The group may or may not participate in the discussion before their own compositions are discussed.) Creating two foil figures in realistic human proportions allows both parties to the conflict to see the problem, give voice to it, and use the flexibility of foil to move one or both figures towards solving it.