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This guide to the human heart is in the form of a labeled sculpture that can be opened up in different compartments. Seeing this made me imagine a resin sculpture, which I think I can make at Tandon’s makerspace, of the floating barrier in the Rio Grande, perhaps with deconstructable compartments that reveal information as you un-build the sculpture/diorama.
“The tectonic-ongoingness of the fracturing gave time for people to ask themselves and their friends how to put things back together, which only obscures the deeper insecurity: this is a wholeness I don’t understand” (Silver 13).
This quote that I highlighted in Figures in Air feels pertinent to my research topic, migration, in that I am trying to see a wholeness, or the way in which the varying systems and stakeholders around immigration through Texas and policy creation, enforcement, and subversion come into a whole, unified picture. Building a diorama sculpture broken into parts that assemble together is a direct metaphor for this fractured wholeness. And perhaps this diorama can float in water as well, and each sphere of the buoy barrier can be detached from the chain by the person encountering the work and sent down a current. Some ideas.
“…the ear does not simply hear it also speaks—it represents and is immediately subject to our mind. Rational listening is synonymous and indistinguishable from the imaginary—and both are inseparable from memory” (Silver 29).
To understand the processes of reception and perception is helpful for me to think about how to create work that facilitates certain experiences.
“In every moment we can find a temporary truth to dream through, to look at ourselves in the mirror with: the prosthesis of imagination” (Silver 26).
This text affirmed and rephrased to me ideas I hold about how I’d like my art to be encountered by others. I think fundamental to my art is the belief in the internal worlds of those who encounter it. The imagination is powerful and has strong roots in memory, and I appreciate when I encounter art that helps me tap into my imagination and imaginative memory to imagine new, unremembered futures and alternatives.
I am scheduled to meet with Margaret tomorrow afternoon, so I will update this post after the meeting! I’ve learned this week that the Mexican government has begun to deport people to their countries to “help depressurize” the US border patrol and immigration enforcement struggles to manage the incoming 2,000 or so migrants everyday.
SOURCES AND NOTES POST MARGARET MEETING
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Njz_Jfj9h-nLu0fyvErHiwxRCJFMKuGrg4X1vmGVNnQ/edit
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