Kitah Daled’s Wire Portraits

Kitah Daled continues to make portraits. This time the children used wire to make their faces.

In the Atelier, the children were presented with a wire in a variety of types and colors. There were electrical wires in white, green, and orange. There were silver and green floral wires, and gold, black, silver, and green twist ties. There was even a roll of silver armature wire.

The children each referenced their reflection in a hand mirror. They created the shape of their face first. Next, they chose a different color wire to create their hair on one end of the oval shape. They cut smaller pieces of wire with wire cutters and twisted them into two small circles for their eyes. Last, they shaped their nose and mouth out of small pieces of wire.

Morah Jessica helped the children connect their sculpted features to the circular frame. The children twisted the connecting wires until all the features were contained within the circular shape of their face.