Through out history people have been leaving their mark on nature. Today we refer to some of these types of things as petroglyphs. What I decided to teach for this assignment was teaching how to leave your mark.
I started by first attempting to teach how to burn a letter or design into a piece of wood but right when Rebecca and I went to do this is the sun disappeared behind a cloud. So instead I decided to teach leaving a mark in a piece of wood by carving with a knife.
First off I started by explaining the things to do so that you don't cut yourself while carving. The first thing is to always cut away from yourself. Also the most important thing is to just not have your fingers in front of the blade but that is common sense so that didn't really take very long to do. So then we began carving.
The funny thing as you will see by the picture is that Rebecca's initials make for an interesting little piece of wood. As I was completely shown up by someone who didn't have any experience carving but happen to be gifted at art I will refrain from showing my piece of wood that I demonstrated the carving on.
Carving things into our surrounding is something that has been around for a long time. The natives of the America's recorded their history on cave walls and this is one of the longest lasting forms of self expression. Petroglyphs can be anything that you were willing to take the time to carve into the side of a mountain. These carving were how people passed down their history and folk knowledge. The images that they carved were not the complete story so the knowledge of what the artist who made the petroglyph had to be passed down through stories which is one of the main ways that folk knowledge was conveyed in the past.
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