💤 This is the emoji I think of when I think about this night, and not because it was boring either. Standing up and talking for that long was physically and mentally exhausting.
To be fair I also think of these emojis 😁 🤓 🙌🏻. I did have a lot of fun and I learned a lot. At the end of the night, I felt very accomplished.

This was my first exhibition for PLP and the theme was the movie avatar. Our driving question was “ What does James Cameron’s world of avatar reveal about our own society?” It was really cool to see how so many people thought of such different ideas and opinions about this question.

The Box
To start when we made our theme boxes each grade eight made a theme statement. Mine was “Our actions can often affect people and things around us in a much bigger way than we expect.” I portrayed this in my box by taking 4 shallow wood boxes and telling a story through them. The first one depicted an undisrupted forest with all the animals and nature coexisting peacefully. In the next one there are soldiers in the forest who have kicked up the ground, are trying to shoot a bird and have left their fire unattended. In the next one, the soldiers’ fire has set the entire forest on fire putting everyone (not just themselves) in danger. Finally, we see a smokey scene with sticks where there used to be trees. This represents my theme statement because of how thoughtless the soldiers were.
The setup
For the most part, this was actually pretty fun. I enjoyed putting up the tree in the centre of our room and it was nice to get to know the other grades. Some part of me loves organized chaos because it feels like everyone’s working together and even if it’s unorganized right then it will all come together in the end. The only thing I didn’t like about this was the tone of some of the older grades some of them were condescending and unwilling to hear our ideas. They were probably stressed though so it’s understandable.
The exhibition
So, the boxes were done, and we set up, and then people started coming in. they came in waves and by the end of the night I could do my spiel in my sleep. It was also really interesting to go and see all the other’s work, in different rooms. I wish I had seen Macbeth, but my break didn’t correspond with the time so oh well. I loved talking to all the people at the exhibition and it was eye-opening to see their opinions on my work.

Overall I really liked this project, especially since we got to use our hands and be creative! I hope to do more projects like this in the future.
Thanks for reading!
Neko