{"id":13287,"date":"2016-02-03T16:32:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T21:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=13287"},"modified":"2016-02-10T12:38:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T17:38:50","slug":"ahs-students-share-visions-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/ahs-students-share-visions-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"AHS students share VISIONs of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

As they prepared for the reception last week to mark the close of their graduate art exhibition, artist Jessica Soud helped her fellow student, Madeleine Neufeld, lace up into an intricate network of cables to symbolise the bones inside.<\/p>\n

The discarded cables and wires were not simply the closest and easiest materials to hand. Jessica wanted to convey something very deliberate.
\n\u201cIf you look at humanity today, it is more integrating into technology and that is how a lot of people express themselves,\u201d she said, looking over her model.<\/p>\n

But humanity also tends to express itself through some of its baser instincts. Of Syrian heritage, Jessica says she only has to look to their ongoing civil war to see this in action.<\/p>\n

The \u201cwearable art\u201d modelled by Madeleine was just one of a number of pieces Jessica had on show in VISION, the exhibition curated at the Aurora Cultural Centre by Grade 12 students from Aurora High School, which wrapped up on Saturday. Other pieces in her collection included depictions of family portraits, skewing darker to skulls. <\/p>\n

Alex Miceli, on the other hand, took her artistic hand to create more comforting images.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy theme overall is familiarity and home,\u201d he says, guiding her model, Jason Saunders, into place.<\/p>\n

Jason was decked out from head to toe in artificial leaves \u2013 a few patches of green nearly obliterated with the bold colours of autumn \u2013 and branches poking out from his body here and there. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy two paintings represent things I find comforting,\u201d Alex explained. \u201cI grew up around forests and I really like nature and being around trees. When I thought about doing wearable art, I felt a tree would be really representative of something I grew up with. People often take trees for granted. We see trees changing colour all the time, but I wanted people to think it could be art.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, what was the verdict of her art himself?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a little bit pokey and I have been hitting people with my branches a lot, but I am wearing it,\u201d said Jason with a grin. <\/p>\n

Each year, \u201cwearable art\u201d is a hallmark of the AHS show, but this year \u201cvision\u201d was the overriding theme that emerged from the students\u2019 art, said teacher Lee-Anne Moore. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the exploration of that concept on the literal, figurative and symbolic level, examining the world from unique perspectives,\u201d she said at last week\u2019s closing reception. \u201cTonight we honour the imagination and powerful commentary of our youth and the artists\u2019 vision.\u201d<\/p>\n

The artists\u2019 vision also made an impact on Cultural Centre curator Stephanie Nicolo, who has been working with the students on their self-curated exhibitions for the past six years. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a special place in my heart for the beginnings of this program and as it has gone on over the many different years and with different artists, it has always changed the way I look upon the world because of your very special and unique ways of displaying those parts of the world,\u201d said Ms. Nicolo. \u201cYou have a wonderful knack for creating beauty with really difficult topics. This year we have seen a lot about global warming in your art pieces; there is an interesting perspective on mortality; a few skeletons in the room, but you guys bring something very special to these exhibitions. We are blessed to see these pieces in the gallery.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Syrian Refugee Crisis to autumn and the comforts of home, Aurora High School’s upcoming grads used art to shine a light on the issues that matter to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016-02-04-01.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-3sj","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 21:00:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}