faces of children of the world

A child carrying the world

WE CHANGE THE WORLD

These cubes had to had to have a "letter" side to stay true to the "real" cubes children play with and learn from ....but here the letters are an excuse to empower the children with a bold statement : "we change the world" in a sample of languages taken from the world newspaper press (Russian, chinese japanese, american, british, italian, spanish, french, belgian, arabic, dutch, german...)

A tree in the heart of the city

I built a minute puzzle with a few cities from all around the world...

Bruxelles, Paris, Shanghai, Beijing, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Vienna, Prague, New York, London, find themselves magically linked by their rivers that make up an imaginary tree in the heart of the city....the twigs and branches are formed by meandering streets outlined like itineraries in the city....

The tree symbolizes life and nature in an urban setting, as well as the link between generations (genealogy) and more generally heritage, renewal and change with the passing of seasons...here the tree also links people and cultures from all over the world for a short while, in an imaginary puzzle tree....

The two smaller trees are growing and seem to evoke the spiritual: one of them looks like the magic people-trees encountered in fairy tales ( see the animated face of the tree linking Stockholm and Brussels) and the other evokes religion through a tree ressembling the jewish candlestick (the tree linking Beijing and Amsterdam)


In this three dimensional picture the children's faces remain visible and are smiling at us, Avec ce tableau en trois dimensions, les visages des enfants restent visibles et nous sourient,comme les fruits de ces arbres d'espoirs et d'héritages mélés.....

Blackboard side completed!