- I have curated it in the same order as last term
-> As I wanted to show the timeline of my past relationships, and how some might affect another, and the first half of the pieces contrasts with the last half of the pieces -> Showing that there are no love in the last half of the pieces, and are more tidy and neat compared to the second and third piece in the series - Each size of the pieces suggest how much emotional weight is invested on them - The number of strings also suggest how much effort and feelings is put onto each of the relationships
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-> I have loved him for 5 years. -> At first he said he loved me, and treated me gently with care -> A few years later, instead of directly rejecting me, he would accuse me for loving someone else -> When I give him love letters, he would come to me and tear up the letter right in front of my eyes -> However at the same time, he would defend me when others accuses me for doing something I did not do -> He also likes to tease me and me alone in class, making small jokes, giving me nicknames and secretly photographing me. -> I do not know whether he loves me or not, but every time he gives me the thought that he doesn't love me, it pains me and makes me ache -> I thought I would have a happy ending with him -> He gave me hope and dream, and I thought we could build our own 'castle' together -> At the end, none of these things came true, and I started disbelieving in love, dreams, magic and started to have dark, negative thoughts -Aim -> In this piece, I would like to evoke a sense of disturbance, pain and disgust Plan- Context
-> During the 3 months in a relationship with him, he has made me feel loved, however at the same time because he kept flirting with other girls and surrounding himself around pretty girls, I have felt jealous and insecure all the time -> I tried internalising all these emotions, showing him my best side and trying to maintain the 'pretty' and 'attractive' side that he sees in me, concealing my worst and ugly side -> Hoping that he would continue loving me and pay attention to me -> While he was surrounding himself with other attractive girls, I have thought about the names and cruel words that people have gave and said to me, making me feel more anxious and doubtful about myself -> However at the end, I was not able to control my emotions - Aim -> I hope to evoke a sense of discomfort Plan- Context
-> During the last two years of high school, he was the only person who understood me and cared for me -> I was anxious and stressed about my academics and grades, and he would prioritise my problems over his own -> In this high school nightmare, he brought me comfort and soothe my anxiety -Aim -> In this piece, I would like to show a sense of comfort from a world of nightmare Plan- Context
-> My first relationship started in kindergarten -> In the three months spending time with him, it was sweet, but at the same time it felt like a short amount of time -> There were no ups or downs in the relationship, we both genuinely appreciate each other and show our affection to each other directly, without any small gestures or hesitations - Aim -->I would like to portray a simple and direct piece, as this relationship I had was simple Plan- Context
-> Although our relationship lasted only for a short amount of time, he gave me a sense of comfort and security -> However, the feeling of being with him was not love, but more like a soldier or a knight who would protect me no matter what -> This sense of protection did not come from any particular actions, but more from his regular body gestures, as he would always imitate how military armies walk and act, by pretending as if he is holding a rifle in his arms - Aim -> I wish to convey a sense of security and protection from this piece Plan- Context
-> In the first term, I would stay after school and wait until his football session is over -> I've tried to show him my 'girly' side, holding his hans, giving him hugs and even revealed my deepest, darkest stories to him -> However, during these months, no matter how hard I tried, I just can't receive any feelings and emotions from him. He didn't make me feel loved, nor comfort, and as time passes, I just got more confused than ever -> At the same time, I did not feel any negative emotions as well - Aim -> In this piece, I wish to evoke a confused and questioning feeling from the viewers Personal context- During the Cultural Revolution in China, Lin Tian Miao's mother was sent to the countryside for three years
- She has learnt to make cotton fabric and sewing - During this process of making cotton fabric and sewing, she has discovered the relationship between labour and the natural world, that important but partly forgotten process of material transformation, and she passed this awareness to Lin - Although as a young child, Lin thought that this domestic labour is boring, but after returning to China in the mid-1990s from being in New York for years, she realised that sewing was how she wanted to express her ideas - A lot of her work has centred upon her own experience of motherhood - She thought that being a wife and mother changes her dramatically in both emotional and physical way -> it makes her stronger and a lot more sensitive, it also enlarge her whole approach to life - She denies being called a 'feminist', as she thought that according to Mao, women hold up half the sky but have not reached that level yet, and thought that the idea of feminism comes from the west - She claims that her practice is at once intensely subjective, based on deep feelings about her relationships, her past and her world, and at the same time it is grounded in her knowledge of Chinese history and aesthetics and of western art history Materials- During last term, I have used different colour sewing threads on black and white paper, however found that they do not convey much
- In this term, I'm going to try using different materials to portray different stories and bring out different characteristics of the pieces Aims- During last term, I had fun experimenting with different colours, and different numbers of threads, which suggested different emotions and the emotional weight they each have in my life
- In this term, I wish to explore and experiment with more materials, sizes and shapes, to make a more complete look and suggest a more intense emotion from some of the pieces - I wish to continue last term's series of work, as they show a timeline and story of how there was love at the first half of the series, while the last half of the series lack the feeling of 'love' - Furthermore, I wish to continue doing something similar to last term's experiment #4 (where the red threads form a curve), as it gives more imagination for the viewers to think of what happened -> In this term, I hope to use different shapes and patterns to portray different stories |
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