Presence and Absence in Art Education

Abstract

I come from a long line of educators from both sides of the family. As a young student I used to enjoy putting complex ideas in a form that was comprehensible to fellow students who needed to understand and more likely to those students who did not want to do the required rigorous work and preferred to get the ideas on a silver platter, so to speak. As a young person and as early as the age of ten I also began experimenting, playfully at first and then more seriously, with budding artistic projects that helped me to express myself in ways that were different from my regular interactions with friends and family.