Hello, everyone.

How are you today? I hope you're feeling really great.

My name's Ms. Afzal, and I'll be your art teacher for this lesson.

I'm feeling fantastic about that because I love teaching art and also because of today's topic.

Today we're looking at memories.

Yep, we're looking at memories.

And our lesson is called Transforming Memories into Art.

What better thing to do with our memories? The lesson comes from the unit of work Art for Life: Expression and Belonging.

Yes, art can really help us express ourselves, give ourselves a sense of belonging.

And I hope you're gonna find that through this lesson.

If you have some memories to hand, some enthusiasm, and openness, let's begin our lesson.

The outcome for today's lesson is I can take inspiration from memories and remembered sound to develop a collaborative artwork.

We have some keywords in our lesson today.

Let's go through them.

Memory, express, and sound.

Memory is something remembered from the past.

Express means using artistic elements and techniques to convey ideas, emotions, and experiences.

And sound, something that can be heard.

These are our keywords, memory, express, and sound.

Let's listen out for them.

Let's look out for them.

They'll be coming up in our lesson today.

Today's lesson is called Transforming Memories Into Art, and it has two learning cycles, reflecting on memories to create expressive artwork and translating sound into visual collaborative artworks.

Let's begin by reflecting on memories to create expressive artwork.

Wow, take a look at this artwork.

What memory could this artwork be reflecting? Pause the video and share with someone.

I wonder what you thought of.

I thought it had something maybe to do with nature or a journey perhaps.

Artists often use memories as stimuli for their work.

What is a memory? Pause the video and share with someone, what is a memory? Perhaps you said something like this.

A memory is something you remember from the past, like a moment, feeling, sound, or image that stayed in your mind.

Here's Aisha.

"I have so many happy memories that I would struggle to pick a favourite one." So lovely.

And Jacob.

"Me too, but not all memories are happy ones.

Some might be sad or scary." Also true.

Alex and Izzy are discussing how they capture memories.

Alex.

"After I've been on holiday, I like to make reels of my memories, which I put to music to help remember them clearly." So nice.

And Izzy.

"I've kept a diary for years.

I love reading them as it helps me to remember things I've done in my life.

Some entries are so different from the memories that I have." That's interesting.

Memories can be influenced by emotions and may change or become distorted over time.

There are many ways to record or capture memories.

It might look like written, a diary, letter, story, poem, or journal, spoken, a recording or voice note, visual, drawing, painting, film, or photographs, sound-based, a playlist, recordings, or a soundscape.

Pause the video and share with someone, have you had a go at any of these ways of capturing memories? Thanks for sharing your ideas.

I think memories must be really important to me 'cause I've had a go at almost every one of these ideas.

Let's have a check for understanding.

True or false.

Memories can only be recorded through photographs.

Pause the video and decide if this is true or false.

Well done if you selected false.

And now I'd like you to say a little more about your answer.

Pause the video while you do this.

Perhaps you said something like this.

Memories can also be recorded through sound, artwork, voice, or written.

Memories can be influenced by emotions and may change over time.

Reflecting on memories to create artwork helps artists connect with their experiences, emotions, and identity.

Artists using memories as stimuli include Chiharu Shiota, who uses thread installations to explore memory, absence, and personal history through immersive environments.

Tracey Emin, who uses emotional memories in her drawings, sculptures, and installations to express vulnerability and personal experience.

Abdoulaye Konaté creates large textile installations that reference history and personal memories using colour and symbolism.

So we can see there are a number of artists using and reflecting on memories to help them create artworks.

What if you could take a memory and turn it into something that others could see without using any words? It might look like a memory expressed as a feeling, expressed as colours, shapes, and lines.

So the memory could be a hug from my nan.

The feeling is feeling warm and safe.

And this could be expressed as peach hues and smudged, fuzzy-edged shapes.

Let's take a look at another example a memory could be.

Swimming in a lake.

The feeling could be feeling cold and fresh.

Oh, I love that feeling.

And the colour, shapes, or lines could be soft, curvy, blue lines.

Memories and the key features associated with them can often be a starting point for an artist.

So here's a hug from my nan.

Those peachy colours and smudged, fuzzy-edged shapes could be created with soft pastels to create those fuzzy edges.

So here we have the memory of a hug from my nan.

An artist chooses how they use the elements of art, such as line, shape, and colour, to reflect their feelings about a memory.

So here we have swimming in the lake.

Curvy, floaty, blue lines, and marbling to suggest ripples and movement.

I think that's a pretty effective expression of the memory of swimming in a lake.

A memory can be expressed visually through the senses you have experienced.

So it could be sound, touch, sight, taste, or smell.

Touch can help us remember important moments, like the warmth of the sun or the texture of an object.

Touch can be expressed through soft textures to suggest warmth, a hand print to express direct touch, rough textures like sandpaper to suggest scratchy, uncomfortable touch.

Memories often fade over time.

Sight isn't just about what we see clearly.

It's also about what we remember or imagine.

Sight can be expressed through ghost-like forms to represent fading images, collage or torn paper to suggest incomplete or broken visual memories, crowded shapes could express busy places.

Taste is deeply linked to memory, and certain flavours can remind us of a place, or person, or a moment.

Pause the video and share with someone, have you got a memory linked to a certain flavour or taste? I have a memory of eating guava with my family in Pakistan as a child.

Taste could be expressed through drips or smears for melting or sticky foods, sharp reds and oranges for spicy tastes, acid tones like yellow and green for sour or bitter tastes.

Smells often connect to memories of people, places, or feelings.

Smells could be expressed through floral or sweet scents, soft pinks, purples, delicate lines, earthy or smoky scents would be perhaps more browns, deep greens, smudges, or shadows, and wavy or drifting lines to represent scent in the air.

Sounds can help us to remember memories.

Sound can be expressed through repetitive patterns to show rhythm, jagged or zigzag lines for sharp, sudden sounds, swirling shapes to show sound travelling.

Sam and Sofia are discussing how artists can express a memory visually.

"Memories don't have to be expressed as realistic drawings or paintings that literally show a scene from the past." "That's right.

It's up to the artist to express their memories in whichever way they choose." Absolutely.

Let's have a check for understanding.

Which of the following would most likely represent a melting ice cream? A, red angular shapes, b, dripping pastel colours, or c, torn, layered paper.

Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you selected answer b.

The dripping pastel colours could represent melting ice cream.

Many artists explore and centre their work around the senses.

Examples include Henrik Olesen.

He uses found objects and words to create art that you can both see and feel, making you think, as well as sense.

Monira Al Qadiri often explores sound, colour, and cultural memory within her video and sculpture work.

Christian Boltanski, who is known for his installations about memory, loss, and the passage of time.

And now it's time for your first task.

I would like you to create an artwork to express a sense you experienced within a memory.

Choose a memory and think about which of the senses you remember the most.

Consider which colours, shapes, or symbols could express the memory.

And choose the most appropriate materials to express the memory.

So pause here while you have a go at this task.

I'll see you when you're finished.

So how did you get on with creating an artwork to express one of the senses experienced within a memory? It might have looked like this.

Oh, fantastic.

Here's Jun.

"My memory is of touching the surface of warm rocks under my bare feet.

I used red paint for heat and added some string for texture.

The rocks were smooth in places so I added blue." Love all of those considerations.

It might have looked like this.

Here's Aisha.

"I went to a meditation class and made this artwork to express the sound of calming music that I heard." I felt instantly calm when I looked at this artwork.

And now we're onto our next learning cycle, translating sound into visual collaborative artworks.

What sound could this artwork represent? Pause the video and share with someone.

Some artworks suggest a sound through the colour, shapes, and mark-making that have been included.

Let's hear from Alex.

"I think this artwork could represent the sound of crickets chirping.

It reminds me of a rhythmic sound." I wonder if that's similar or different to the sound that you thought this artwork represents.

When you think of a memory, it can often have more than one sound associated with it.

Sofia.

"At football matches the sound changes constantly, from chanting and songs to cheering loudly, especially if a goal is scored." And Aisha.

"During meditation the music remains calming, but the tunes and instruments change frequently." And I find in some meditations I attend, there's no sound.

There's an absence of sound.

Total silence.

Let's have a check for understanding.

True or false.

Changes in sound can happen over time or instantly.

Pause the video while you decide if this is true or false.

Well done if you selected true.

And now I'd like you to say a little more about your answer.

Pause the video while you do this.

Perhaps you said something like this.

Sound can change gradually, like a song slowly getting louder.

It can also change instantly, like a sudden clap of thunder or a dog barking.

Artists can express the way a remembered sound feels and not just how it sounded.

You could look at sound waves or music scores for inspiration as they naturally show variation.

And there we can see a variation of sound in this musical score.

Many artists take inspiration from sound, and some include Oswaldo Maciá, who creates artworks that combine sound and smell to make people think and feel in new ways.

Georgia O'Keeffe, who painted abstract forms in response to musical rhythms and emotions.

Some cultures interlace sound with visual art, which is often expressed through shapes and patterns.

First Nation Australian artists often use symbols and patterns to represent rhythm, dance, or the sound of instruments.

Sound can also be thought of in terms of movement.

It flows, ebbs, and shifts.

How might the represented sound change in this artwork? I feel like there's maybe some silence to begin with, and then these marks that we can see coming in are bringing in the sounds, and then perhaps tailing off a little towards the end.

Expressive marks can reflect how sound evolves in terms of rhythm and energy.

Artwork representing changes in a piece of music.

It's almost like a kind of musical notation.

Check for understanding.

Which of the following could represent high energy? Is it a, soft, floaty lines, b, expressive marks, or c, one straight line.

Pause the video while you decide.

Well done if you selected answer b.

Indeed, expressive marks could represent high energy.

Many artists make collaborative artworks inspired from memories, sound, or both, including Nilupa Yasmin, who worked with communities where participants contributed personal photographs, patterns, or memories, which were woven together.

Stuart Fowkes is the creator and curator of "Cities and Memory," a global field recording and sound art project.

Izzy has created an artwork to describe the different sounds from a party.

Pause the video and share with someone, what do you think some of those sounds were at the party from what you can see on this artwork.

Let's hear from Izzy.

"I expressed the excited arrival of friends, balloons popping, singing happy birthday, and the quiet after they left." I love the way we can see that progression as we move through this piece.

Andeep has also created an artwork that visually translates sound.

Pause the video and share with someone, what do you think the sounds are in Andeep's artwork? "I've expressed the sounds from a day at the beach.

I remember waves lapping, seagulls squawking, the breeze blowing, and laughter.

Love those.

Jun used different media and techniques to translate his memory of sound.

Hmm, another interesting one.

I wonder what Jun is hearing.

Let's find out.

"I expressed the sound of wind chimes through soft shades of watercolour and collage.

The pink circles represent one sound and the green shapes are other notes.

The sound fades away to the right." Wonderful.

So expressive, so creative.

Check for understanding.

True or false.

Artists can only make collaborative artworks inspired by memories or sound.

Pause the video and decide if this is true or false.

Well done if you selected false.

And we know that artists can make collaborative artworks inspired by memories, or sound, or both.

And now it's time for your next task.

I would like you to prepare a strip of paper roughly 48 centimetres by 6 centimetres.

You'll need your own strip of paper to work onto.

Pause the video while you prepare your strip of paper.

So you might have prepared your strip of paper like this, roughly 48 centimetres by 6 centimetres.

Next, I'd like you to create a list of the different sounds heard within a memory.

So, for example, on a rollercoaster ride, there may be nervous laughter, the click-clack of the ride climbing, screams, breaks, and excitement.

Pause here while you create a list of the different sounds heard within a memory.

Okay, how did you get on with that, creating a list of the different sounds heard within a memory? You might have written a list like this.

A walk through the woods.

You heard birds chirping, leaves rustling, a dog barking, crunching leaves, and snapping branches.

Or perhaps in the schoolyard.

Chatter, laughter, football bouncing, footsteps, whistle, and school bell.

And next, I would like you to make an artwork to visually translate different sounds heard within a memory.

You should work directly on your strip of paper, select the media of your choice, consider how the sound changes across the composition, use a range of mark-making to reflect different sounds.

So pause here while you have a go at making your artwork to visually translate different sounds heard within a memory.

Okay, how did you get on with making your artwork visually translating different sounds heard within a memory? Perhaps the rollercoaster ride with the nervous laughter, click-clack of the ride climbing, the screams, the breaks, and excitement could look like this.

First of all, watercolour for quiet calmness as the rollercoaster ride ascends.

And then red strokes of acrylic painting to express screaming.

And then oil pastel mark-making to express excitement.

There are many possible outcomes.

Blobs of paint were added to the paper strip and dragged with a piece of card to create a layered effect.

This effect was used to express nervous laughter.

So we've got the nervous laughter, the ride climbing, the screams, the breaks, and the excitement.

What a journey.

What a fantastic visual translation of sounds heard within a memory.

And now I'd like you to work collaboratively to create a woven structure with the strips made in response to memory and sound.

So, first of all, position eight strips vertically to construct the warp.

Align the strips vertically and tape the top edge to a surface.

Arrange the warp with minimal space between each strip.

Try to vary the colours next to each other.

Next, weave eight strips over and under to form the weft, so moving horizontally.

On the next row, do the opposite pattern.

If you went over a warp strip last time, go under it this time.

Repeat the process until all of the strips have been included.

So pause here while you create your own woven structure with the strips made in response to memory and sound.

Enjoy your collaboration.

Okay, how did you get on with creating your collaboratively constructed woven structure with the strips made in response to memory and sound? Wow, maybe you created something like this and looking as pleased as this bunch.

"We are all pleased with how our woven collaboration turned out.

It is an artwork full of personal memories." Oh my.

I love it.

In our lesson, Transforming Memories Into Art, we've covered the following.

Reflecting on memories can create visual stories, allowing for self-expression and shared understanding.

By exploring memories through art, we preserve them in creative form and give them new meaning.

Sound can inspire artists to express emotion, rhythm, and movement through visual elements to reflect how a sound feels.

Well done, everyone, for joining in with this lesson.

I loved exploring memories together, and especially the sounds of memories, and especially the collaboration that you came up with at the end there.

This is really something special.

I love this lesson.

And I'm looking forward to seeing you at another lesson soon.

Until then, stay creative.