The last site I used wasn't necessarily a "site" but my shot glass shelf. Since I was young, I have traveled to many different places with my family and all of those memories are the best I have. I didn't start collecting shot glasses until about 2 years ago, so I don't have a shot glass from everywhere I have ever been. When I look at my collection, I feel proud that I've experienced those places, but sad because it feels so incomplete. Stacking my shot glasses caused me to feel very nervous because I knew they could fall at any minute. As I put the final shot glass on top of one of my tall pieces, the sculpture fell and my shot glass from my favourite country broke. I wasn't sad about the shot glass, but about the memories it holds because it felt like a piece of those memories was broken with that shot glass. After that happened, my sculptures became inspired by the broken shot glass of my favourite country on Earth. I used two blank shot glasses with pieces of a map to represent the missing shot glasses I'm not sure I'll ever have the opportunity to get.
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The second site I used for this project is my bedroom. After I finish doing laundry for my partner and I, I put it on the bed and always have to immediately fold it and put it away or I feel more anxious in a space I should be comfortable in. As I did laundry over the weekend, I decided to leave the clothes on my bed until every load was finished and all I wanted to do was fold those clothes. When I finally let myself fold them, I arranged them in a few different ways. I separated them into stacks based on which drawer they go into, then by colour, then I separated them by each different outfit I wore last week and over the last two weekends. The first site I drew inspiration from is my second room where I keep all of my books, CDs, art supplies, and guitars. I arranged the books into shapes that are visually appealing to me, specifically a spiral and a pyramid. I added a few paper cranes because when I lived in Korea as a kid, most of my memories are of reading and making paper cranes to pass the time. The other studies are comprised of some of my favourite things that I like to keep around me. As I moved them around, I started to think about the struggles I've dealt with throughout my life, both physical and mental. I tried to find a way to convey those struggles with the use of metaphors and text in my compositions. |
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December 2017
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