Mosaic Symbolic
'Swing Life Away by Emily Jobsz-Hogan
- Item Number
- 149
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
- Sold
- 155 USD to phuzylogik
- Number of Bids
- 14 - Bid History
Item Description
Size: 6”x6” / 15.2x15.2 cm
Tesserae: stained glass, millefiori, glass beads
"The weightlessness, the freedom, the whoosh of air passing your ears, the feeling of two straight legs ploughing through the sky, casting your eyes up to the heavens, feeling on top of the world. The breeze in your face, the wobbly colt-like legs that jerk you to a halt, jumping like a gymnast and dismounting in the mulch."
'Swing Life Away' emphasizes the importance of indulging in child-like behaviour as an adult, assisting in both emotional and physical benefits.
Research demonstrates that swings are beneficial for physical, social, and cognitive development, and they offer certain therapeutic benefits. They promote movement and perceptual skills, spatial awareness, general fitness, social interaction, mental representation, and sensory integration, including vestibular development (balance).
Gross and fine motor skills are also developed during swing play. Gross motor skills included loco-motor, balancing, and body coordination. Fine motor skills included hand, arm, and finger coordination, grip strength, and circling motions of arms and legs.
When a person is swinging, both the vestibular system and proprioceptive system are being activated. The vestibular system is comprised of several structures in the inner ear that lets a person know their position in relation to the earth’s gravity.
Activities that activate a wide range of inputs to the vestibular system have been found to be effective in reducing or eliminating vestibular problems. The proprioceptive system consists of sensory information caused by contraction and stretching of muscles and by compression of the joints between the bones, and tells us our body position and posture.
Swinging naturally helps to develop balance and coordination. The visual connection between vestibular and proprioceptive systems is also developed through swinging, as swingers use visual cues to adjust their balance and movement.
Emily Jobsz Hogan
Emily's blog: Emily Red Studio, emilyjhogan.wordpress.com
FaceBook: www.facebook.com/pages/Emily-Red-Studio
Flickr Photos: www.flickr.com/photos/rubyridinghood/
Australia
Donated By:
Emily J Hogan
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