class notes

Learning About Butterflies : Children drawings from the Holocaust

Jotting notes about pictures.

First picture:
farm, family, home, grandparents, flying, somber cat, drinking, night, sick, medicine, town, colors, culture, small town, hard work, key?, sickly, help, angry man to the side, angel, spiritual, helping those in need, witches, owls, roosters, leading, a spiritual being?, leader, christianity, crosses

Perle Hessing: Paintings of her life. began painting later in life with cataracts and arthritis

"The Hungry Ones"

make three lists of painting: List of objects, actions, and events

objects
clock
dog
candles
pillars
table
linens
window
clock
cat
bird in cage
little chair
large curtain
chandelier
pulle dup hair
people outside the window

Actions
waiting
serving
sitting
laying
watching
burning
ticking
sound/music playing
smelling
breathing

Events
Dinner time
Special guest
Uninvited guest
During the holocaust?

Emotions
secretive
anxious
hungry
bored
nervous
content
relaxed
longing
amused

Possible titles for painting
The Wait
Group Discussion

The Awaited Guest

Possible Poem

A cloak of disguise
hiding the
hard
stained
scratched
oak that lies beneath,
tough and strained
as their life,
underneath
this flowered
distracting
cover.