Project One - Contextualization - In Pursuit Of Truth
For this project I completed two pieces. Both "In Pursuit Of Truth" starting with an artistic abstract 3D piece and ending at a poem. I began this project with a thought experiment called "The Ship Of Theseus." The idea goes that the ship of Theseus is kept in port after a great war to show the people what a great battle ship looks likes. After 100's of years each piece of the ship rots away and is replaced. If every board is replaced is this still the ship of Theseus, and if not at what point is it no longer the same ship. If it is the true ship, then the question lies if you could remove the rot from the old wood and put it back together which is the true ship. Following along this path asking life questions and running into philosophies such as "deconstruction" I created my Apollo project.
Art Portion
For my art portion I focused on an idea/philosophy called deconstruction. Beginning in the 1960's by Jacques Derrida, deconstruction originated in the context of translating languages. The basic idea behind it was that to communicate an idea you must break down the said idea to its purist form, the subject, at a point in which nothing is being applied to it. The idea of deconstruction breaks things down to understand them at their purest. Sometimes though when things are broken down they are not all that they seem, and if they are not broken down they may have meaning lost when communicated the verbal words or written text. So, over the course of a few days I broke down a simple house item, a wooden chair, and then put it back together. Using nothing but the chair (the truth of itself) I built an abstract art piece, showing that although the chair is made up of the same things, when taken in with an artistic filter, the filters people naturally have, the true idea of the chair is lost. But how exactly does this relate to context, well to put it simply, when we talk to people, we add and take away context subconsciously, deconstruction aims to understand something in its true context to understand its true meaning. To showcase this I simply pulled a chair out of its context, that being something you sit on.
English Portion
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For my english portion I focused on more of a philosophical approach to unanswerable questions. I wrote a long poem to go through questions we don't have answers too. I used quotes from other poets and integrated them into the poem. I in a sense I recontextualized them and integrated their various styles into a poem of my own. But I will let the poem speak for itself as it is a more concrete idea the the abstract one that is the art piece.
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