The object I inspires from V&A was the sculpture piece “399 days” from Rachel Kneebone, Kneebone’s intensely modeled figurative scenarios un fold into coral-like eruptions of limbs and organic forms.Resonating with its Renaissance surroundings within the V&A galleries, literary allusions to Ovid and Dante collide with sculptural echoes of Michelangelo and Bernini. Here the body, and multiplied beyond imagination, reaches a visceral intensity beyond the boundaries conventionally ascribed to it.
I got influenced by everyday events, people, and observations. When I was in the process of gathering ideas about this project there were 2 personal experience has strong effective to my practice.
First one was I got bullied in public I needed help but no one offers.
Second one was an old man fell over in front of his house badly injured, until I came to help him , he’ve been sitting there couldn’t get up for a while ,people walked pass by like he didn’t exist.
Situations like this made me think that, although we all find ourselves in situations where we hope someone can help us, when others are in need, are we ourselves willing to offer help?
In order to investigate further, I started to gather other people’s personal experiences of moments they needed help and moments they offered help when it’s needed.
During the process of investigating I find gestures often involves either when people needed help or offering help, the gestures can represent a role in different situations.
Then I started to explore making model with plaster and have some experimental tests with applying different materials on/mix with the plaster to create a different texture.
At the same time except the interviews with people, I’ll also take a model of their hands in different gesture.
When each model hand represents a different person with different background and different situation, the model is not just a cold plaster piece anymore, it become more alive. And by putting the hands together it become a symbolic language of gestures.
When projected the stories I collected on the sculpture ,the twisted words are representing the situations when someone couldn’t get the help because misunderstanding or lack of understanding .Later on I’ll continue work on this project,to have a deeper reaserch and also make background sound to make the piece more complish.
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