These look interesting Christine. I think they're a lot more dynamic than some of the forms you were working with last week.
I think some explanation about the individual pieces and your theories/ thought process behind them would help us to understand your direction and respond.
I was thinking of making these large sculpture pieces, at least large enough that a person can walk under and through it. Then I would put outside either in an existing environment or in a self generated environment. I'm imagining it being out in the middle of a natural environment rather than a city environment.
I chose to do my family dynamic, not to show my family, but to show some parts of my family that come up, that anyone can relate to and recognize in their own lives or in themselves.
The First piece is of my relationship with my mom. The large outside part is cur separate from the inside smaller solid piece. The outside piece is suppose to be my mom and the inside piece is me. The reason it is set up like this is because my mom is the one who cares about all of my characteristics that are visible to the world. She still sees me as her child, and I always be because it is engraved into Japanese culture: that a mothers child will always be dependent on the mother. ""The Japanese term amae refers, initially, to the feeling that all normal infants at the breast harbor toward the mother— dependence, the desire to be passively loved, the unwillingness to be separated from the warm mother-child circle and cast into a world of objective "reality." It is Dr. Doi's basic premise that in a Japanese these feelings are somehow prolonged into and diffused throughout his adult life, so that they come to shape, to a far greater extent than in adults in the West, his whole attitude to other people and to "reality." ("The Anatomy of Dependence" by Takeo Doi) In other words, Japanese children stay under their parents control longer than children from other cultures.
The second piece is of my relationship with my sister. There are two pieces to this pieces. The top smaller part on top and the bottom part. The smaller part on top, if turned around, is the missing part of the larger piece, and that represents my sister. The larger piece on the bottom, represents myself. She is 7 years younger than myself and she complements me. I would like to think that I take care of her, but we really take care of each other. So, what I am trying to say with this one is that, two people who complement each other create something greater than a whole.
The third piece is of my siblings and myself. This piece is suppose to represent my brother, sister and myself. These pieces were all cut from one block of wood. These pieces look like they came fromt he same place but yet they are still all different. The point I'm trying to make is that even though you might have a similar life experience and opportunities as someone else, there are many ways to interpret, take from, and view those experiences. I also wanted to show that, diversity is good (although sometimes hard) and that when combined can create something new, unexpected, and beautiful.
The fourth piece is of my relationship with my dad. The whole, flat and curved piece on the right is my dad: a stable, logical, stern, funny and disciplined person. I am the left a little more confused and curious side. My dad nurtures my inside. The reason my dad is so important to me is that he pays attention. He always is watching everything I do and everything thing I say, he gives me general advice, for example: look past your nose, but doesn't tell me what to do. This short quote explains how my dad thinks, which is a trait I admire and strive to achieve: "Perhaps there is no property in which men are more distinguished from each other, than in various degrees in which they possess the faculty of ovservation. The great heard of mankind pass their lives in listless inattention and indifference as to what is going on around them, while those who are destined to distinction have a lynx eyed vigilance that nothing can escape." —William Wirt.
The fifth piece is of my relationship with my parents. The two ends on the side are my mom and dad. And the post in the middle is myself. The idea behind this one is that when growing up it was me against them, they are a tag team. This next quote can summarize how I see them: "The code of the samurai, bun and bu: culture and arms. Bun and Bu is compared to the wings of a bird (by a samurai scholar). "Culture and arms are like the two wings of a bird. Just as it is impossible to fly with one wing missing, if you have culture but no arms, people will slight you without fear, while if you have arms but no culture, people will be alienated by fear. Therefore, when you learn and practice both culture and arms, you demonstrate both authority and generosity..."' So, both my dad and mom are my "culture and arms."
These look amazing. A whole new visual language from what we're seen! I particularly like 1-3. The shapes speaking for such intimate interactions is great.
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These look interesting Christine. I think they're a lot more dynamic than some of the forms you were working with last week.
ReplyDeleteI think some explanation about the individual pieces and your theories/ thought process behind them would help us to understand your direction and respond.
I was thinking of making these large sculpture pieces, at least large enough that a person can walk under and through it. Then I would put outside either in an existing environment or in a self generated environment. I'm imagining it being out in the middle of a natural environment rather than a city environment.
ReplyDeleteI chose to do my family dynamic, not to show my family, but to show some parts of my family that come up, that anyone can relate to and recognize in their own lives or in themselves.
The First piece is of my relationship with my mom.
The large outside part is cur separate from the inside smaller solid piece. The outside piece is suppose to be my mom and the inside piece is me. The reason it is set up like this is because my mom is the one who cares about all of my characteristics that are visible to the world. She still sees me as her child, and I always be because it is engraved into Japanese culture: that a mothers child will always be dependent on the mother. ""The Japanese term amae refers, initially, to the feeling that all normal infants at the breast harbor toward the mother— dependence, the desire to be passively loved, the unwillingness to be separated from the warm mother-child circle and cast into a world of objective "reality." It is Dr. Doi's basic premise that in a Japanese these feelings are somehow prolonged into and diffused throughout his adult life, so that they come to shape, to a far greater extent than in adults in the West, his whole attitude to other people and to "reality." ("The Anatomy of Dependence" by Takeo Doi) In other words, Japanese children stay under their parents control longer than children from other cultures.
The second piece is of my relationship with my sister.
ReplyDeleteThere are two pieces to this pieces. The top smaller part on top and the bottom part. The smaller part on top, if turned around, is the missing part of the larger piece, and that represents my sister. The larger piece on the bottom, represents myself. She is 7 years younger than myself and she complements me. I would like to think that I take care of her, but we really take care of each other. So, what I am trying to say with this one is that, two people who complement each other create something greater than a whole.
The third piece is of my siblings and myself.
This piece is suppose to represent my brother, sister and myself. These pieces were all cut from one block of wood. These pieces look like they came fromt he same place but yet they are still all different. The point I'm trying to make is that even though you might have a similar life experience and opportunities as someone else, there are many ways to interpret, take from, and view those experiences. I also wanted to show that, diversity is good (although sometimes hard) and that when combined can create something new, unexpected, and beautiful.
The fourth piece is of my relationship with my dad.
ReplyDeleteThe whole, flat and curved piece on the right is my dad: a stable, logical, stern, funny and disciplined person. I am the left a little more confused and curious side. My dad nurtures my inside. The reason my dad is so important to me is that he pays attention. He always is watching everything I do and everything thing I say, he gives me general advice, for example: look past your nose, but doesn't tell me what to do. This short quote explains how my dad thinks, which is a trait I admire and strive to achieve: "Perhaps there is no property in which men are more distinguished from each other, than in various degrees in which they possess the faculty of ovservation. The great heard of mankind pass their lives in listless inattention and indifference as to what is going on around them, while those who are destined to distinction have a lynx eyed vigilance that nothing can escape." —William Wirt.
The fifth piece is of my relationship with my parents.
The two ends on the side are my mom and dad. And the post in the middle is myself. The idea behind this one is that when growing up it was me against them, they are a tag team. This next quote can summarize how I see them: "The code of the samurai, bun and bu: culture and arms. Bun and Bu is compared to the wings of a bird (by a samurai scholar). "Culture and arms are like the two wings of a bird. Just as it is impossible to fly with one wing missing, if you have culture but no arms, people will slight you without fear, while if you have arms but no culture, people will be alienated by fear. Therefore, when you learn and practice both culture and arms, you demonstrate both authority and generosity..."' So, both my dad and mom are my "culture and arms."
these are beautiful! thank you for this amazing leap / you came to be / carolina
ReplyDeleteWow. these are quite beautiful. I am looking forward to seeing them in class tomorrow. I really enjoy how personal they are.
ReplyDeleteThese look amazing. A whole new visual language from what we're seen! I particularly like 1-3. The shapes speaking for such intimate interactions is great.
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