This piece, like much of my recent work is about finding discarded materials that no one else is interested in – a piece of plastic, a metal rod – playing with it and eventually finding a new meaning for it in a new and different context. I might also make CD’s of the collected songs and music. I am in the process of preparing a logbook to acknowledge those who contributed to this project and to add drawings and more information about each song. The piece also contains many blank rolled-up papers so that new songs can be added. Since the papers and the cells have different colours, the visual reading will always keep changing. Every time someone takes out a piece of paper to read it, it can be returned into another cell.
Just like our lives, it is a work in progress.
In spite of their differences, these songs all share the mood that celebrates life and those moments when we are aligned with our highest feelings of creativity, curiosity, humour, enthusiasm, empathy, compassion, courage, a sense of beauty and a sense of wonder. The result: this “book of love songs” holds phrases, and indirectly, through the QR codes, the music and the lyrics for songs in a variety of languages that reflect diverse cultures and the many ways of understanding love. Mostly through the internet, I asked family and friends near and far to send me their favourite love songs I was delighted by their enthusiastic response. Following the lead of the insects, I made this a collective process. Each paper contains a phrase from a love song and its corresponding QR (quick response reader) that allows a person with a smart phone to access the Youtube link for that specific song. I turned these “cells” – which would hold honey or larvae in the insects’ creation – into containers for rolled up pieces of paper.
This inspired me to work with that same spirit, enjoying the ride while listening to music, which is very present in my life. Insects are beings in the purest form: complete in themselves, without asking for anything or anyone to be different. It appears to me that their process is based on trust, even a sense of fun and freedom unselfconsciously, ceaselessly in a seeming song and dance routine, their work makes me think of the spirit behind the best poetry, music and art. They have found a way of producing, without degrading the environment working collectively and diligently, driven by a commitment to achieve their objective. These “wild things”, these industrious creators, are inspiring. Its cell-like forms suggested to me something done by wasps or bees and so I decided to make a piece in honour of insects.
#Wild thing you make my heart sing Patch#
In a patch of garbage, heedlessly left behind in a beautiful field, I saw some cardboard that might have been previously used as industrial packaging material. “Wild Thing, You Make my Heart Sing” was born during one of my frequent walks in the countryside. Nature and human activities are often in conflict with each other, but they don’t need to be. My work is about celebrating that which I like and appreciate: nature, especially the wilderness, and at the same time, cities, progress and all the new inventions that improve our quality of life. Only when we have integrated this concept will we be able to treat everything and everyone with respect and care. Integrity comes from the realization of our oneness that is, the awareness that we are an integral part of ONE planet in which we live, where we are dependent on each other, our lands and our waters. This process of individual and collective expansion should lead us to question how we act, and to confirm that sustainable peace and progress can only be achieved with integrity. We each seek happiness in our own way because each person’s relationship to life is so unique. When we don’t succeed, we launch revised and expanded dreams in a desire to improve the new situation we have created.
We inherited our ancestors’ dreams of prosperity and peace, and try to realize them, and at times we do. The speed at which we move as individuals, as countries and as a human race is faster than it has ever been. Selected work for the 6th Beijing International Biennale, that had as a theme “Memory and Dream.” September- October 2015. Pieza seleccionada para la 6ª Bienal Internacional de Beijing, que tuvo como tema “Memoria y Sueño.” Septiembre-Octubre 2015. “Wild Thing, You Make My Heart Sing (Book Of Love Songs)”
0 kommentar(er)
