Cicada88

By Cicada88

Batik bench, Bucks Rock Camp

Mid-session visit to my daughter's summer camp.
This is an arts camp in Connecticut where kids spend the whole day wandering from one arts (visual or performing) workshop to another, very self-directed, to work on projects of their choosing. Originally founded by German or Austrian immigrants as a working farm, now evolved into offering flexible individualized instruction in sculpture, woodworking, glassblowing, bookmaking, sewing, weaving, lampworking, clowning, acting, dancing, theatre lighting, writing/publications, photography etc.
This is a bench in the batik workshop. Apparently batik is a time consuming process of repeatedly waxing and dyeing fabric, so campers pass the time by putting tape with names of well-known people or things on each other's foreheads to guess. Then they stick it on the bench.
It's a lovely window into their world. (Love the kid who wrote Dante)

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