'the matchbox project' is a project i´m doing together with my IB students.

the project has been designed to test the artist´s/student´s resourcefulness, ingenuity, creativity and perception of what art is. it is also meant to open doors to thinking and developing art in new ways and to push the artist/student to use objects he/she might not have considered interesting or encountered in their art work before.

this post will be added to as the work progresses

take a matchbox and empty out the matches disposing of them safely. fill the empty matchbox with as many different items as you can find around the house, out of doors or wherever you are.

arrange the objects inside the matchbox to include as many as possible. Consider how objects that at first seem too big may be manipulated to fit within the box´s dimensions. Can objects be packed inside others? Photograph your open matchbox when it´s full of as many objects as possible.

in your ‘matchbox sketchbook’, use Page 2 (use page 1 to make a list of all the objects in the box) to make a pencil study of a composition of three of the objects in the matchbox

getting ready to start working on the project...

a detail of the cover of the sketchbook i made for this project: matches, gesso, bitumen.

drawing a composition of three objects from the box

the finished drawing, i chose three very disimilar objects on purpose, i wanted something from nature therefore the sea shell, but i also needed some height so i chose the matchbox. this was the first matchbox i used for this project in london and it still has the objects i collected for the project inside. it had a sentimental value too. the injection was my desire to choose a weirder object to make the composition slightly strange. i placed the objects creating a triangle which i very much like.

to be continued...