Enjoyable and Video games: Scavenger Hunt Drawings

Adam Weekley’s exhibition features a sequence of drawings that play like a discipline information designed by a child who refuses to sit down nonetheless. Inspired by summer season camp video games, particularly the fun of a scavenger hunt, every picture captures a second of discovery: “Found it!”

The topics are all discoveries from hikes and out of doors adventures: a squirrel, a salamander, a cut-down tree stump, mysterious bits and items that appeared too intriguing to not pocket (not less than visually). Every drawing captures that split-second of recognition, when the extraordinary abruptly seems like treasure. Created in vivid pinks and delicate greys, the illustrations are daring, graphic, and playful, sufficient to be named, matched, sorted, or remodeled into the principles of a sport on the spot. They may belong on a guidelines, a flashcard, or pinned to a cabin wall with thumbtacks. At its coronary heart, the sequence celebrates the enjoyable of paying consideration. It turns informal encounters with the pure world into an invite: look nearer, discover extra, and hold discovering.

Participants will create their very own sequence of drawings utilizing markers in shades of pink and gray. Pink carries many associations and stereotypes; on this workshop, we’ll problem these assumptions and discover its vary and expressive energy. Participants will design their very own set of “scavenger hunt cards” of non-public discoveries that rework into playful collectible photos.

Adam Weekley is a visible artist and artwork professor. His illustrations, work, and sculptural installations interrogate ideas like id and reminiscence by the development of typically whimsical narratives. The tales he tells are fragmented and filled with metaphors, drawing from a historical past of media consumption and time spent trying to reconcile his personal observations concerning the world round him. Aesthetically, his work facilities on nostalgia and depends on a mixture of humor and pathos.