ABSTRACT

The group divided into four small groups, people choosing who they wanted to work with. The experience of the life-sized portraits was still active and the 'symbolic group' now occupied the walls of the studio. In Group 1, five members from the closed community had chosen to work together. It explained that they had started by making a prison but they themselves felt trapped by it and wondered why they had chosen the topic. Group 2 had spent a lot of time deciding what to make before having the idea of a house on which they had written 'welcome' in many different languages. In Group 3, it seemed that individuals had chosen to work on their own pieces without much discussion or interaction. In Group 4, people also worked individually, although they had spent a lot of time talking before using the clay. The clay was pounded with much enthusiasm and loud banging.