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LYN BELISLE (Co-Founder and Facilitator)

The Enso Circle, First Term

I wanted to try working from dark to light in mixed media and encaustic

photocollage using historic photographs.In 1904, the National Child La-
bor Committee formed in the hopes of ending the horrors of child labor.

Teams of investigators were sent to collect evidence of the harsh conditions

children were working in. One of these investigators was the photographer
Lewis Hine, who traveled across the country meeting and photographing

children working in a variety of industries.

I wanted to return to these photographic sources that have called me from

the first time I saw them and deepen my study of them as both image and

metaphor.

I am constructing a five-panel screen/standing sculpture with photographs

of the children on the front of the panels and their scant biographical

notes on the back.

The structure itself is going well. Linen bands are effective in joining the

panels, but working from dark to light is proving to be a challenge for me.