Experimentation: The Object
I identified the archive as a method of discovering myself, feeling and constructing an amazing process of art. The archives, can let us know who we are, and what do we feel. They let us understand why we are the product of all our life years and the people who surround us. In this project of experimentation, I will get t know myself through the archive of my family, and I will try to have a bigger connection with my past to understand myself and try to make art a little happier.
I searched for two objects that were very precious to me. The first one my personal sign and my most precious way of dignity, a gift from the girl i liked during my childhood. And the second one, the greatest symbol of honor and glory, of hard work, inherited through generations and a sign, not personal but of my family. A gift, from my grandfather. I asked myself, what do these objects represent to me and I tossed out three categories that are aplicable to all my precious memory objects.
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I thought of two more objects, the most ancient and precious plume I know, a gift from my mom when I was a child. And a camera, owned by my grandmother when my mother was just born. Nevertheless, the definitive object, the one that carries not just my family's but my archive, was the pen.
Experimentation: I Remember
As I said, the archive carries all I am and probably what I'll ever be. The soul of my hard work, my motivation and the feeling that are evoked when I think of that object's story and that object's trajectory I think of many generations of hard work, of meetings, of signs and family enterprise. I think of honor and family dignity, I think on myself and on what I have lived through my family life. Those moments of security, that I can express with other objects.
I started by writing all of what the object makes me feel, what it evokes on me and what I think on when I see it. That, I combined with my notes of class, where I said what I remembered when I see the objects, what comes to my mind and all the memory they contain.
With those things clear, I combined this category of the ancestry, heir, and hard family work, with the other category, since they are both corelated. The, in a mind map I expressed the relation between, what is my past and what I want to be, since I think I am too on the object's History. All, through the combination of objects that express through memory, through history that I didn't get to see, through stories, through their physical traits and through their symbolism in my family's and my life. They all represent an heir given to me, the story of two glorious families combined, passed to me to convert history in greatness and convert a glorious heir to a project of my life.
Finally, I ended the I remember process, learning may things about me. Feeling my whole memory can be an art piece and with a lot of memory in my mind on what I know and what I need to know. But I finished the process, by making my memory a poem, in which the only things visible are inside my grandparents' silhouette. Because after all, the object might revive memory, but I live through them and the object does too.
Experimentation: My object as an Art piece.
In this experimentation, I used my memory and my feelings to recreate the object in a new concept. One that be shown as an art piece, that shows by itself what I feel. First, I drew the object out of a copy, by looking at it. Then, I drew the silhouette of the object, but my memory and my emotion distracted me, so I put some detail in the pen. And then, I drew the object out of my memory, of seeing it for the first time. Then, my drawing transports me to that time.
Then, I expressed the pen through photography, trying to take all of the pictures.