Miss Hinton
In our Mantle work, we visited the island of Hei-May and looked around the church. It was a place of celebration and prayer.
We saw a beautiful stained glass window showing the story of creation.
We also noticed a women in one of the side chapels who appeared very upset.
She dropped a picture of fisherman hunting a whale and we heard her praying for the safe return of her brother.
We thought our drones had captured some images of her brother and the other fishermen. If they were hunting legally we wondered why they hadn't returned home yet.
The drones showed us that the fishermen had been tracking a whale. It had been injured and rather than using harpoons to kill it, they were actually injecting the whale with medicine. They didn't return home immediately as they wanted to check the whale was recovering.
We watched as the fishermen returned to the island and the woman welcomed her brother back home.
Although the islanders now knew that the kraken was a myth and actually there were underwater volcanoes and whales around their homeland, the headteacher of the school told us that the children needed more convincing.
She asked us to produce a story prop to help bust the myth but in a fun way. So we got to work designing a prop with the cardboard boxes, tubing and syringes she had given us to use.