{"id":48,"date":"2014-05-11T10:52:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T10:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2015-04-07T23:06:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T23:06:32","slug":"the-tree","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/education-work\/the-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tree<br \/>\nA Road to Crawley Project<br \/>\nCommissioned by Crawley Museum and Crawley Council<br \/>\n2011-2012<br \/>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-48 gallery-columns-6 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/education-work\/the-tree\/sarah-sparkes-end-window-at-the-tree\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sarah-sparkes-END-window-at-the-tree-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-221\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-221'>\n\t\t\t\tCrawley Tree\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/education-work\/the-tree\/with-flowers-and-person-5-and-6\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/with-flowers-and-person-5-and-6--e1428446320281-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/education-work\/the-tree\/p1030885\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/P1030885-e1428446719903-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/education-work\/the-tree\/11-biker-windmill-with-flowers\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/11-biker-windmill-with-flowers-e1428447564302-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/education-work\/the-tree\/carnivallovecat\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/carnivallovecat-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/education-work\/the-tree\/olympus-digital-camera\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/small-cralwey-girl-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>I worked with pupils from Thomas Bennett Community College, young residents of The Foyer sheltered accommodation in West Green and some of Crawley New Town\u2019s first residents, to create digital collage works that now adorn the boarded windows of \u2018The Tree\u2019 building.<br \/>\nUsing my own research at Crawley Museum and other archives and the narratives shared by the participants, I sourced images of people places and things which hold significance for Crawley.<br \/>\nI worked with the participants to enable them to create paper models &#8211; montages of images past, present and future.\u00a0 These were then combined in digital collages, which were designed to fit each of 14 windows on the Tree building.<br \/>\nEach window space was seen as a stage in which to create an imagined scenario connected to the towns histories and apocryphal stories.<br \/>\nWorkshops took place at the school, Hawth Theatre, Crawley Museum Building and the Foyer<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtocrawley.org.uk\/community-school-projects\/people-places-things\/\" target=\"_blank\">More images on the Road to Crawley Website<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"gk-social-buttons\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"gk-social-label\">Share:<\/span>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"gk-social-twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=The+Tree&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sarahsparkes.com%2Fblog%2Feducation-work%2Fthe-tree%2F\"\n\t            onclick=\"window.open(this.href, 'twitter-share', 'width=550,height=235');return false;\">\n\t            <span class=\"social__icon--hidden\">Twitter<\/span>\n\t        <\/a>    \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<a class=\"gk-social-fb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sarahsparkes.com%2Fblog%2Feducation-work%2Fthe-tree%2F\"\n\t\t\t     onclick=\"window.open(this.href, 'facebook-share','width=580,height=296');return false;\">\n\t\t\t    <span class=\"social-icon-hidden\">Facebook<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<a class=\"gk-social-gplus\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sarahsparkes.com%2Fblog%2Feducation-work%2Fthe-tree%2F\"\n\t           onclick=\"window.open(this.href, 'google-plus-share', 'width=490,height=530');return false;\">\n\t            <span class=\"social__icon--hidden\">Google+<\/span>\n\t        <\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tree A Road to Crawley Project Commissioned by Crawley Museum and Crawley Council 2011-2012 I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":46,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/235"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}