Crafting our path

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The first project we remember working on together was drawing scenes from the picture books that our mom brought with her when she immigrated from the USSR. Working on large CVS poster boards, we drew porcupines crawling in forests and swans swimming in lakes. At six years old, sitting at our two-foot-tall, colored-pencil-covered table, we’d swoosh our hands back and forth to create large expanses of grass and water, making sure to divide the coloring evenly between the two of us. Our mom taught us to use colored paper strips and Elmer’s glue to create faux frames for our finished posters, which we hung in our room. We’d each make two of the four sides of the frame.

At age 4, Allan Gelman (left) and Danny Gelman pose with a Lego zoo they built together.COURTESY PHOTO

Danny Gelman (left) and Allan Gelman at the Class of 2020 ring delivery.JOSHUA CHARLES WOODARD ’18

Our collaborative creations continued as we grew. In fifth grade, we had a massive friendship bracelet phase, making every single type in our instruction book—from the basic row and chevron patterns to the most complicated tiki statue design. We would each tackle one type of bracelet and then swap knowledge, teaching each other what we’d just learned.

As middle schoolers, we entered a papier-mâché phase. Inspired by the Studio Ghibli films we watched, one of us made papier-mâché Totoros. The other made papier-mâché matryoshka dolls. And then we combined our ideas by making papier-mâché matryoshka dolls,

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By: Tate Ryan-Mosley
Title: Crafting our path
Sourced From: www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/18/1006225/crafting-our-path/
Published Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 03:55:00 +0000

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