Stack, balance and glue together.
What do you know about balance?
Practice balance with your body.
Choose random wood pieces. Build and balance a structure.
What does symmetrical mean?
Is the structure you built symmetrical?
Does a balanced structure have to be symmetrical?
Test your idea. What does asymmetrical mean?
Show how a structure can balance and be asymmetrical.
Simon Rodia’s Towers of Watts, Los Angeles, California
Between 1921 and 1955, Simon Rodia transformed discarded objects and a dream to “Do something big” into the Towers of Watts, now on the National Register of Historic Places.
Rodia was a pioneer of reusing materials. His story of dreaming possibilities, initiative and perseverance will inform our explorations in the art room in the coming weeks.