Land Art

TPC represents the spending of time (that represents life) from the prehistoric time until now in the modern days, and we use the time not in our favour and we only consume time from our lives, the mask that the clock is pointing to represents most things that are fake on the social media where we activate and can be desinformed by the not true content.

This artwork represents our dilemma entering the world of social media. The cone represents social media. The garbage inside the cone is all the bad stuff that pollutes the media, so there is a fungus on the top of the cone that develops from that rot. We also have gates of hell that separate us from all of that bad stuff and it is our choice to choose if we are going to enter it or not.

Our Land Art does not have a story, more a meaning. We tried to show the effects of Social Media for obsessed people. More specific, a man, tried to cross the street and was hit by a car because he was looking at his phone not at the cars.

The title of our project is “Borders” .

The main idea is to show that thanks to critical thinking and education you can be protected from fake news and all unnecessary information.

In the middle you can see the brain. It is strong and nicely shaped. All around it there is a line which represents education and media literacy. It is not letting the rubbish o come inside. It is protecting the brain from fake news and unnecessary information.

The bridge of wisdom: On the one side there is the chaotic information of social media, including fake news and everything. People who are crossing the bridge learn how to filter and critically examine the information. As a result, on the the other side they are meeting a structured and well-organized body, that represents social media information when literacy is applied on them. The artwork represents the fake /true information and content we are getting from the media. The bridge the way we are double-checking the info and seeing them from different angles to get the final confirmed knowledge we are keeping in our minds.

Our project was showing one very casual evening of a mature couple sitting in front of the Tv and watching News. Here, as you can see, we made a TV screen, and a couple which is watching the News on the screen. We were using leaves and sticks from the forest to create our piece of art.

Outdoor exercises were proactive and interesting, we had diverse ideas that fits the diverse atmosphere that's created in such Youth Exchanges, we saw some participants active some others are trying their best to compete with the lack of sleep, because the nights were long and participants were enjoying the free time, especially after the cultural nights, people built bonds and that was interesting.

Talking about the Egg protection creative exercise, we noticed a lot of capacity of ideas, especially that most of the participants were trying to be different in their own way, to be more creative and to show the others that they're better. Participants used different methods despite the limited resources, activated the scientific part, used maths & physical calculations to make sure that the egg protection device will be successful.

Finally the excitement is raising, moments of testing the devices is getting closer, so we saw a moment of truth there, the first egg fell and hoppa it broke, the fear raised in between the participants, some others showed attitude but in the end we continued and the good news are that most of the eggs survived. It was a good exercise and helpful.