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April 29, 2012
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April 29, 2012
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April 29, 2012
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April 29, 2012
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April 29, 2012
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April 29, 2012
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April 29, 2012
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drawing (mon)
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NEW PROJECT IDEA (hopefully to be in collaboration with my dear friend **Leslie Shershow)
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When I was last at my childhood home my mother went through her jewelry box with me. One of the items she gave me was a component from the wedding ring of her first marriage. The ring is made from 14K gold and was the element in which her first wedding ring rested. The actual wedding ring was given back to her ex-husband, something I remember her saying she regretted, even when I was a child, due how much it was worth. She told me that I could wear this piece if I wanted or even have it melted down if I chose. We went so far to have it appraised in New York’s diamond district where they offer you cash for gold.
I originally was attracted to this piece of jewelry because it was something of my mother’s past, but also the way it looked without it’s partner ring, dual bands connecting with a missing center.
Over time, while wearing it, I began to have feelings that this object might carry some of the bad luck from it’s former life. It started to represent to me failed expectations or maybe some kind of misguided attempt at self-transformation. Although I know its just an object like anything else it intrigued me why I could not disassociate from my knowledge of it’s former life, what it must have seen, what my mother must have went through while wearing it.
This small and rather insignificant object from my mother’s past made me wonder about the nature of the things we hold on to. It made me wonder whether objects really do hold memories of past lives, or why would we ask them to. Originally wearing this object in a casual way I began to feel conflicted by my feelings towards it. I realized that it was near impossible to escape it’s symbolism to me. I could only see it as an object of broken unity, a tiny but deeply-steeped symbol of our personal desires and most secret intentions.
I saw the object as having a dual existence, symbolic of marriage as an attempt to transcend our limited existence and gold as representative of how we acquire wealth in order to ground our own identity in the physical world.
As it represented to me a sort of failed object I’ve decided to reinvent it. Rather than blindly wear it, or melt it down for money to instead remake it as tool. Having the gold melted and split into pieces that will enable someone to read their fortune. In the vein of tea-leaf fortune telling the gold pieces will be shaken with the dust of personal objects to uncover a visual picture. This abstract picture being able to be reveal subconscious desires and intentions.
From this a video will be made of the reading of my mother and sister’s fortunes.
pulverized cloth/objects
faceted and rounded pieces of 14K gold
fortune reading system (akin to tea-leaf readings)
3 chanel video (mom, sister, myself) -
(via kateoplis)
Posted on March 11, 2012 via I'll make mistakes here with 104,349 notes
Source: nashvillesky
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What I love about video is how unstable it is. How tenuous it’s existence, not being real in a physical sense but still existing. Like thoughts, like feelings, like consciousness. How it is produced, how it is presented, how it is stored, how its distributed, will always be changing. It’s like many things in life that are loose, unpredictable, and fleeting.
Video is dependent on energy and technology. Two things that are ephemeral, relatively invisible to us - that human beings also rely on deeply. To understand video art, collect it, present it in our personal space is really a confrontation of our own dependance on these things that make us anxious.
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“Bouquet”
