Artist Inspired Craft Kit - The You I See

After the kids were done with the colorful silhouette project, I showed the picture of Yayoi Kusama's original artwork - One Thousand Eyes to Big E today. 

He starred at it for a while and wowed by the amount of faces there are. He said, "It must take the artist a long long time to finish this art project!" I told him it takes not only talent but also hard work and patience to make a good piece of artwork.

Then Big E and I decided we could try a project like this, too!

Big E started by drawing an irregular loop on half piece of white printing paper. 

I asked Big E to imagine this is a journey for his silhouette.

Which direction is he going? What is he going to see?  

We put another half piece of white printing paper on top of the loop.

Big E started tracing the silhouette cut-out using a pencil and moving it along the loop he drew earlier.

Big E was very focused! At times, he was a bit confused which direction the silhouette needed to turn.

It took quite some time for him to trace the silhouettes with a thin black marker afterwards.

Here is the finished work!

 I asked Big E, "Where do you think the silhouettes are going? What are they going to see?"

He thought about it for a second, 

"That's for them to decide. It's not up to us. You know, Mama, they might see you!"

I was speechless. Then I named this artwork - The You I see