‘Spring City’

City of Melville Kidchella Festival, Attadale WA
- November 2019

 
 

A collaborative installation activity between Mikaela Miller, and Carrissa Wu of Jotterbook Flowers.

What happens when play and nature meet the built environment? For the City of Melville’s 2019 Kidchella festival, we decided to find out.

Spring City combined paper florals with painted florals in an ephemeral, evolving world of construction and wonder. Participants were invited to decorate an array of large boxes (often larger than the miniature architects themselves) using paint, paper and imagination. These masterpieces were then stacked, packed, lifted, dragged and rolled into a colourful and dynamic landscape where creativity really did lie outside the box.

A yellow sign reading 'Spring City. Paint. Craft. Build.'
Two small children paint green paint onto a box.
A bird's eye view of three children making paper flowers. There is a blue bucket in the center with lots of coloured paper.
Mikaela Miller paints the outline of a bee in black onto a box.
A yellow, pink and white flower made of paper.
A person fills in an outline of a honky nut with orange paint.
A young girl paints a white box with yellow paint.
A overhead shot of a yellow paper flower held by a child's hand.
The arm of a person painting over a black outline of a flower onto a box.
A selfie shot of Mikaela Miller and a young girl smiling at the camera. The young girl's fingers are covered in blue paint.
Many painted boxes are stacked and placed together on a grey tarp. The front box has a sign reading 'Spring City.'
A young girl moves a painted box. She is surrounded by other painted boxes.
Mikaela Miller and collaborative artist Carrissa Wu pose amongst stacks of painted boxes. There is the sign for 'Spring City' in the foreground.
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