What do you see? I see a large old trunk, so old it looks antique. People used the trucks to store blankets or quilts and other household items. But this truck is not going to open. Thick vines have grown across the chest sealing it off. It doesn’t look like it would be easy to pull or even cut the vines, they look dense and compact. Visually the vines won’t let the viewer even consider getting in. It takes years for vines to grow around an object, even if the artist placed the vines around the trunk and nailed them on, the viewer doesn’t consider this as a possibility since it looks so real.
The sketch prompt is to draw a truck like an artist’s but to add your own version of vines. What will your truck be concealing? A hidden message might give a clue to the materials you choose to wrap your trunk in.
Time to TALK. Think about the truck, how solid it’s made with the vines wrapping around the chest. Whatever is inside, if anything is staying concealed. But, do you think anything is inside? Is the artwork so personal that the artist is using the objects, a chest and the vines, as a metaphor to hide part of himself? What’s hidden? It’s there a secret?