Where Can Your Inner Light Shine?

The Boy Who Built a Windmill and Saved His Village 

William Kamkwamba: 'How I Harnessed t

he Wind' 

Create a 9 × 12-inch white paper relief sculpture that shows a meaningful idea about where your “inner light” can shine in the world.

• Your artwork should combine two connected themes or ideas and use layers, overlapping shapes, folds, and texture to create depth.

What are my two themes?

What does my “inner light” represent?

Where does my light shine?

What will be in the foreground?

What will be in the middle ground?

What will be in the background?

What will be my focal point?

Which paper techniques will I use?

Theme Ideas

Choose two ideas that work together, such as:

• Ocean + Healing

• Tree + Hope

• Sky + Freedom

• Nature + Peace

• Earth + Care

• Community + Kindness

• Animals + Protection

• Light + Love

• Flowers + Joy

• Stars + Dreams

Project Requirements

Your artwork must include:

1. 9 × 12-inch white paper base

2. A theme that combines 2 connected ideas

3. Foreground, Middle Ground, and Background

4. At least 3 levels of depth

5. Clear layering and overlapping

6. At least 3 different kinds of cut shapes

7. At least 3 different paper techniques

8. At least 3 textures

9. One clear focal point

10. A composition that fills the page

11. Careful cutting, folding, and gluing

12. A clear connection to the idea:
    “Where can your inner light shine?”

Paper Techniques You May Use

• Focal Point

Your artwork should have one main area that first attracts the viewer’s attention.

The focal point could be: a tree, a flower, a bird, the Sun, the moon, The star, the earth, an animal, a wave, a symbol

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