Body Sculture

“Ways of communication”

  My body esculture was inspired entirely by Yoko Ono ,Cut piece, in which spectators are invited to snip off her clothing. It is  a performance art. The black dress is hand painted with a special black paint. With the color and the rigidity of the material I want to express my difficult to communicate in my second language, while Looking for different ways of doing it I designed this performance art, in which spectators are invited to do something to my dress like e.g. Drawing, painting, or simply rub the fabric of the dress. The combination of painting with the bleach generates a reaction and as response to this I give each person a newspaper flower , every flower has two positive messages in two different languages, English and Spanish.

Video

          Final result of body sculpture after which the audience participated in my performance art.

Response to the chapter Touch, From the book A Natural History of The Senses by Diana Ackerman

After reading the chapter Touch, from the book A Natural History by Diana Ackerman, I was reminded that each of our senses are directly related to our emotions, thoughts and memories. When we explore our senses we are generating awareness of ourselves and the world that surrounds us. For example when we define a smell, no language seems to be able to describes a scent so we end up associating it with other ideas or experiences. When I am cooking my 10-year-old son very frequently says  “Mami it smells like the gods! “or “Something smells like cinnamon!” or At times he even says “It smells like a baby just born”. If we did not have memories of these events it definitively would be impossible to understand what we mean by these phrases.

Memento

For this project, I chose to examine a memory of mine in which I got pregnant and then, I had my babies.

This event represents the most important of my life. I was completely happy. I want to represent this wonderful moment, so incomparable with other symbolizing both my pregnancy as the birth of my two precious treasures, my two babies.

I decided to minimize the following materials: Sequins, Light and glue.

 White sequins: I wanted to make the representation of my stomach during pregnancy and my two children. White and bright sequins chose to represent the precious and special moment. 

Glue: it represents the placenta as an important part in the process of pregnancy.

The light: represent how important was that moment to me.

Personal Response to Susan Stewart

The Body is the primary mode of perceiving scale

The scale give us our perceptions of objects in life.
In this picture the hand, appears larger than the tower. 
However in real life the viewer knows the tower is much 
larger than any hand.

Capacity of objects to serve as traces or authentic experience is in fact, exemplified by the souvenir. The souvenir distinguishes experiences.

The mask of Venice every time I see it has the ability
to remind me of the wonderful experience when I 
visited this place for the first time.

The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental and the three dimensional into the miniature,that which can be enveloped by the body.

I don't have the habit of collecting miniatures but if it did 
I would love to do it with perfumes since each fragrance 
reminds me a moment special and different i.e. leads 
me to live past experiences just to smell them.

Nostalgia can not be sustained without loss

It is impossible to stop remembering 

my grandmother Carola and not to feel 

nostalgia.Have not had the fortune to 

enjoy it much as Grandma already died 

very young. 

To have a souvenir of the exotic is to posses both a specimen and a trophy

The souvenir in the form of snake I cant see it already 

that his image is associated with a negative experience that 

comes to mind.

The place of the origen must remain unavailable in order for desire to be generated

The bottle with sand of Punta Cana directly reminds 

me of the place to visit.

Soap Changes

Cut off the legs.

Took away a leg.

Added some water and boiled.

Added blue food coloring.

Stabbed it in with a fork.

Added glitter and glue.

Added pink food coloring

Melted soap then, put in a mold to make chocolate.

Cut it off into small pieces, smushed it, and added sticks.

Freezer for an hour or so.

I added clay and paint.

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