ART
EXPERIMENTATION
FINDING
CATEGORIES: ONJECTS THAT BELONGED TO MY GRANDFATHER-HOBBIES-COLLECTION-OWNER IS SOMEONE IMPORTANT IN MY LIFE
Abstract concept: Love, talent, absence and perseverance. These two concepts have to do with this object because this object is a symbol of love. The love that my grandfather had for horse-back riding is seen with this trophy, also because this is one of many and the fact that I'm using this object also tries to show the love I had for my grandfather and this was a "souvenir" that my brother and I kept after he passed away. Not only this trophy, but the tens of trophies he had of horse back riding showed his perseverance to be not be good but be the best at what he did as a hobby. Talent can be seen with this object because of the talent he had for horse back riding, which let him be victorious in this area.
I chose this object because while I was searching for objects in my house, most specifically in my room and my brother's room, I found this trophy and just when I saw it, and I knew it was my granfather's and it brought me lots of memories of him that made me be a little emotional remembering the man he was with me. This object, as I started to analize it, made me realize the work he did to get those trophies and be good at his hobby. This object was only the work he did but it also made me remember him. I hadn't thought about him in some time, and this trophy made remember and think about him, how nice he was with me, the times at slept at his house and was happier than ever, so this object meant a lot more that just a trophy my grandfather won at a competition.
STORY BEHIND MY OBJECT: This object/Trophy was my grandad's until he passed away, and the "collection" of trophies was kept by my grandma in the same house. But when she passed away, my dad and my uncles wanted to sell the metal of the trophies to get some money off of them, but me and my brother wanted a kind of souvenir to remember my grandad by, so we decided to keep the trophy and leave it in our room to see it everyday and remember our granpa.
CATEGORIES: OBJECT THAT BELONGED TO MY GRANDMOTHER-HOBBY-OBJECTS THAT BELONG TO ME-COLLECTION-OWNER IS SOMEONE IMPORTANT IN MY LIFE
Abstract concept: Memory-Hobby-Collection-Perseverance-Work-Absence. It is important to say that this is a part of my pin collection that I have standing beside my bed in my bedroom. First of all, I will talk about the objects in this collection that have always belonged to me and were acheived due to effort. So, the pins on the top part were achieved due to my work in the band, which made staying at school late everyday for lots of months, getting tired of marching, arriving really tired to my home to do homework, etc. This pins show my effort in the marching band and also the memories of each year in which I got these pins or the person who gave them to me. This collection has a deep meaning because when I see each of these pins, a nice and a bad memory comes to my mind. This collection is very important because it summarizes lots of parts of my life since about 2014. The most important pin in this collection is one that I don't really like, but it is very important because it comes with the memory of my grandmother that passed away. When I see this pin, it comes with the story of when she died, that I went to her room some days later and took her iPad and while seeing the photos, I saw a video of when I was really small and was in my grandfather's house and I could hear my dead grandfather's voice in the video, helping my small cousin to help golf even though he didn't even play golf. Minutes later, I went into my grandmother's closet and in one of her blazers, was this pin. I asked my father and he said I could take it. I took it, as this was going to be one of the only remaining memories I would have of my grandmother that passed away. It is important to say that all of this happened just days after my grandmother passed away. All this says that this pin has the memory of my grandmother, who was the owner of this pin, and this pin brings lots of memories back to my head and really does get me emotional, because it makes me remember both of my grandparents.
Before saying why I chose this object instead of any other, I want to say that this exercise made me realize that while the effort I put in to get these pins is important, it doesn't even compare to the importance of the pin in the middle, because my dead granmother was the owner, and because this pin comes with lots of memories attached to it. Now, I chose this object above any other because of the sad and happy memories that this object comes with from the side of my grandmother and from the side of the marching band. Each of the marching band pins comes attached to the loss of the "Batuta de Plata" and the sufferage in the band, but it also comes with the memories of the people I met that year, with the cool songs we played, with the hugs I got from my friends in the band, because of the happy crying, etc. The pin of my grandmother comes with the sad memory of her death, but also, it comes with the happy memories of when I slept in their house for weeks, the memories of my grandad's voice, the memories of when my granmother took me anywhere in her car when my parents couldn't take me, no matter how far it were, when she showed the things that she had knitted, and a lot more memories that I'm grateful for. So for this, this pin was chosen not because it is a nice pin or anything, it was chosen because of all the memories that are brought back to my because of this pin.
STORY BEHIND MY OBJECT: The common pins, that have always belonged to me, were gotten in the places I travelled. But the important pin, which was my grandma's, was gotten by me just after she passed away, as I went to her house, opened her closet with her clothes and wanted to take a kind of "souvenir" to remember her by.
I remember...
Blackout poem
Transformation
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
-How this different transformation processes is serving as main guideline to generate a narrative? Because this object help to tell the story of this memory.
-Is it effective for the task? Yes, because it lets the viewer get a context of the object and more of the meaning of it, because people in general don't care about your memories, but maybe with a context, they will understand and care.
-How can these detonate different interpretations? These can detonate different interpretations, because me, the only person that understands this object, isn't giving any context to it, so the person viewing this can interpret it the way he wants, maybe getting to different conclusions than the ones I got to with this object, specially as the person viewing this never met my grandpa.
-How does the type of transformation process change the view over an object or a series of images? Because for example, when I drew the object without seeing it, you only take the details that you remember, which are the important ones, so with this, the real meaning to you of the object can be seen with this, With a series of images, we can understand the object better and have a context.
-Which questions are more or less suggestive when building a narrative?
Where? What is the importance? Why is it importnat? How did it happen?
Collective Archive (911)
Abstract concepts: Life and death; violence
Are you promoting it?
Are you against it?
What is the concept beneath it, which you want to depict?
I am definetely not promoting this act, as I am completely against it. 911 was an event where 4 planes were hijacked in the air, leaving every person in this plane dead, but previously scared and terrorized because of the situation that was happening inside those planes. Not only was it a suicide for the people hijacking the plane but an assasination of all the other people inside. Also, as the two planes crashed in the tower, people were trapped in the higher floors, some killed instantly, and some hardly managed to escape. I am against this, because, for whatever reason Al Qaeda might have had to do this act, it is still very wrong to kill the 3000 people that the killed, which is a very big number, but also, because these are innocent people that had nothing to do with the problem USA had with Al Qaeda, that was their support su Izrael. For this, I think this is a terrible act, and these archives, for this reason, have the purpose of conmemorating the "colorful" victims, the beautiful skyline that was in New York, the "blurriness" of the victims, as they will never be seen again unless in blurry photos, so the mental image of these victims in blurry. This act fulfilled its purpose of terrorism, as it gave terror to the world, but mostly to the people near the act, and the lesson from this is that you can never go to violence to solve a problem, because look where that leads to.
Body
Reflect on the memory, due to the ephemerality of the pieces when working with the body as a material for an art piece.
Reflect on what happened, your preconceptions, fears regarding the inclusion of the body.
Did you feel confortable or not? No, because of the position I wasin, but also because I don't really like showing or filming my body.
Why you think that comfort or discomfort happened?
Mainly, the disconfort happened because of the position I was in, which led my arms and feet to fall asleep and it was really hard for me to breath. Also, its unconfortable staying in one strange position for a minute, also because we are used to always moving.
As a final reflection:
Can these sculptures be considered art?
Yes or not and why? Yes, definitely, because in my sculpture, I was trying to express that I really miss nature and the scent of it, because I am locked inside my home and haven't seen trees or grass in a really long time, and those flowers are the closest thing I have to nature, trees or grass. For this, it can be considered art, also because creativity and real experiences were put into the thought of this video.