Arts in Human Development - Creative Practice - Week 2

This week while reading about Urie Bronfenbrenner’s economical perspective of human development  I read how “The ecological environment is conceived as a set of nesting structures, moving from the innermost structure, outward. The idea of a set of nesting structures inspired my week 2 creative blog assignment; Make a work of art titled "Human Development." 

The art piece I created is called “Nesting Vessels in Human Development.” 

I have created 5 vessels out of clay using the pinch pot hand building technique.

Each vessel represents a stage of human development starting with infancy vessel as the inner vessel moving outward through the phases of human development. This is the order also that I created the piece. Below are pictures of the creative process and stages of the nesting vessels. I tried to capture side views and direct front on pictures. When it was finished I found it interesting that the all 5 vessels nested inside each other looked like a flower.

Infancy - This vessel I created it to look round with a small opening, just beginning.

Childhood - This vessel I tried to represent a child by a triangle symbol, thicker straight walls that were cut at the top.

Adolescence – This vessel was created thinner a less structured with bumps and in places broken through for the road bumps and challenges in this stage.

Adulthood – This vessel was created thin and flared out to represent reaching going through the other stages and reaching an expressive peak in our journey to give out in our daily lives.

Late Adulthood – This vessel was pinched from a slab of clay instead of a ball to keep it low and wide to represent entering the final stage of development and also to hold and contain the previous 4 stages of human development.