Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Collection...Collaboration...Courage


Cluster One.

"For eons, diverse cultures have created artifacts and images in an effort to codify and interact with compelling but unknowable ideas and beliefs. Over time, many of these images and artifacts have become associated with the major religions. But others, the ones we find most fascinating, are more individualistic, probing the most personal yet uncomprehended knowledge of self, others, the natural world, and the spiritual realms. The creation of shrines and alters is not just of the past, nor only of traditional cultures. Humans are in a continuous process of enshrining that which they value, imaging that to which they aspire, and memorializing ideas and forces from which they gain hope and sustenance..."
source is here


So besides doing a Google image search for shrine, altars, or cabinets of curiosity...
(all of which yield terrifically inspiring results...hint...hint)

You may also want to check out...


Damien Hirst's
Pharmacy works...
"By reproducing the area of a pharmacy the public is normally denied access to in a highly aestheticised context, Hirst has created a kind of temple to modern medicine, ironically centred around an agent of death (the insect-o-cutor)."
sited from here


Dario Robleto...a short video of the San Antonio artist who relies heavily on the history of his found and collected materials to saturate his conceptual work...
HERE


Doris Salcedo...a Colombian artist who also works with objects imbued with history. Using furniture and household items to create haunting war memorials...She collaborates with teams of craftsman and architects to realize her often large scale work.
ART 21 video snippet


AND

for some process book inspiration...
this site has a load of international process book examples...
choose a person and watch the mini video that pages through their entire book...
right here

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