pulp joyous

when kids are motivated to do new things

to play with new media

and to take foreign ideas

and remake them into something for their own world

well....

that's what happened in our school last week.

drew matott 

whose name is synonymous with peace paper 

(and several other paper projects)

 volunteered to come and make paper

 with us for a day.

he worked flat out.

all

day

long.

 in ashley putney's art room.

 we made lots of paper

 from (mostly) cotton rag pulp

 our fingers all shared this amazing experience

creating

 haptic understanding

 for kids of many ages.

 smurf blue was a favorite pulp

made from a sweat shirt

(we also had united states currency pulp).

 but it wasn't the color so much as 

how these young people

 were introduced to the concepts of papermaking

 as a personal art form

transforming one's clothing

into art.

 ashley and drew

 and i, well, we all 

had the BEST time.

 drew promised the kids he'll be back.

and the kids

well they are holding him to that promise!

thank you drew and ashley

for the opportunity to make paper in school.