We were briefed on our new project this week and, as the title states, we'll be doing sculpture. The project has 2 phases, one dealing with assemblage, the second with scrap metal. No restrictions on size of amount of objects used.
The two have to be binary oppositions. Now there's a strange idea - that there are things that exist that are complete opposites of each other with no grey area. It might not sound so strange at first, but think about this scenario:
A man breaks into a pharmacy to steal medicine for his dying daughter. He could not afford to buy the medicine and, to him, this seemed like the only other option.
Should he go to prison? Ask this question to kindergarten kids and they'll all probably say "yes". This is because as we grow and gain worldly experience we learn that the world isn't only black and white - we develop to understand a 'grey' area. So, to me at least, 'good' and 'evil' cannot be binary oppositions simply because bad people are capable of good and vice versa. I'm actually struggling finding a 'true' binary opposition simply because everything seems to have an in-between; Night and Day, that makes dusk and dawn impossible. Nature and technology perhaps? That seems to have been a theme for all my art this past year, might be a good idea to continue that trend...
Still feel a bit baffled by it all though.
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