For heads and hair we stretched our imaginations and used Sydelle Ganzl's idea of putting a Styrofoam ball into a black stocking. The dolls that we made were photographed. The dolls once reduced into two dimensions were used to eventually create the mural cartoon. The last section of wall was South America . We made Panamanian molas.
Molas are cloth patterns of birds and fish etc that are stitched into layers.
These layers have windows cut into them. These windows allow the onlooker to observe the underlying cloth. Numerous layers are usually employed with equally numerous windows. The impact is a saturated busy design of patterned color. It was spring, the mola lesson turned out to be a wonderful present to the children who had worked so hard.