1″x1″, paper
Maybe it’s not a mosaic, but it’s still a health pendant…
Literacy and the impact that it has on health has been poking its head out again and again this week. I talked to a class about political murals and the way they’re designed to be “read” quickly and easily by using symbols instead of letters, I thought about the work I did at La Alianza Hispana on health literacy and the drawings I made in Guatemala to help low-literacy teachers collect data about their preschool students’ health. All the while I’ve been watching my 4 year-old begin to piece together letters and connect sounds to each one. He’s so lucky to have the time and the support to turn his curiosity into strong reading skills. The pendant is made from a hologram of letters cut from the front of an old brochure. The photo doesn’t do it justice, but different letters appear as the hologram turns and catches the light in new ways.