Making is important, making together is important. I have always thought that the ability to transform your environment, your close-space brings with it a strange type of power. Perhaps this is an explanation of home decoration becoming so popular, the first space outside our body is our home, to decorate is emancipatory, a small revolution within our own front room.
To imagine making a pirate ship from card is not difficult, this is probably the tenth I've made over the years, I am an experienced pirate ship maker from card. It took me a while to switch on a maker brain, it was rusty and slow. I had collected the card from the large card bin at a cardboard box factory down the road, it's a place of transformation the flat- to- the- thing the laying-down to the standing-up. (note use of hypens for-affect) The joy of building with a bunch of kids and parents is that what you end up with just is what it is - in the words of Mike Vronsky from the film the Deer Hunter:-
"This is this, this ain't something else."
