Thursday, August 28, 2025

Arts Unlimited: Education Transforms and Children's Projects

                                                          Arts Unlimited 

Education Transforms  and Children's Projects
On display at the Living with Nature Center
San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

"The future belongs to young people with . the imagination to create.” – Barack Obama

Dr Abe V Rotor

 
Left, Entomology (study of insects): A pair of butterflies mounted and "plasticized" for study and wall decor. Right: Relief painting of white doves, guided by sunlight, fly to  war-torn Gaza, Ukraine, and other trouble areas of the world.

Specimens for study and decoration,
function and beauty in combination;
their message draws man's action,
to learn, love and revere Creation.
 
  
 
Calabash (Lagenaria siceraria), also known as miracle fruit, bottle gourd, studded with pearl-like glass marbles, makes a unique chandelier or table lamp and convenient receptacle office and school items.. 

Hard shell of upo for head gear,
in old days, a gentleman's wear;
with marbles like stars shining.                 
made anew today as chandelier.

 
 
Rocks as specimens and table top decors in one.
 
Limestone - precursor of marble through metamorphism.
 
Igneous rock undergoes fragmentation, often in cleavage (left).  
Right, constant abrasion along a stream results in the making 
of this spherical shape rock used as protype canon ball.  
 
Fragmentation is key to weathering, and the formation of sharp rocks such as flint, 
man's earliest hand tool. 

Three general kinds of rocks: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic,
 mounted on artistic base and/or frame, make the subject geology 
an inspiring study and hobby.  

Precious stones are not only mined but found
unconsciously in many places of Nature;
next time you go outdoor or simply walking -
who knows you might discover a treasure!

Green mussels' beam into blue-green hue is restful to the eye.
 
 
Make use of the natural beauty of shells in various art expressions. 
 
 
 
Driftwood is remnant of a once mighty tree calling man's attention.
 
Deadwood image sends a distress call more than prayer.

 
Broken plate and dried food crust make an austere art - why not?

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