Construction: The Parts and the Whole

How does one make a statement?

How is that statement constructed?

What are the signifiers?

Do we piece together -- building a whole from the parts?

Or do we breakdown the whole to a single part?

Does each part carry the same meaning as the whole?

How does the viewer read the signifiers?

Does the whole make its statement if it is out of context?

Does the statement need an explanation or a statement of intent from the artist?

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[1] All photographs and jewellery by Rae Mearkle

Differences

What does jewellery communicate?

What does a T-shirt communicate?

What does sculpture communicate?

Why does it communicate poignantly?

What do you want to communicate?

Connections

The Heart is an odd thing.

We cannot control it but we try.

We cannot avoid it but we try. 

We dare not look in its darkest corners but we try.

To connect to the other, we must try.

We must share.

We must communicate poignantly.

Placement Part 2: Social Connotations

 When we place we speak.

We declare:

We draw connections:

We communicate:

We speak about ourselves...

Placement Part 1 -- Our Environment

How and where things are placed affects our interpretations of them.

They become other than 'just' this or that.

It is obvious when things are 'placed'. The placement becomes deliberate with an implied reasoning.

Imaginations are sparked.

Questions are asked of items placed:

Why was it placed there?
Why was it placed just so?
What will happen to it now?


Connotations are then created. 

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[1] All photographs by Rae Mearkle

Physical Manifestation

Language and art form a duality with both being 'immediate constructions'[1] used to communicate the abstract unknown of one entity's interior to another.

Thoughts, Dreams, Feelings 


Langauge, Art, Emotions

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"Speech (hence, language) is a vehicle, an instrument, the mediation of something else (soul, thought, passion); it absorbs the entirety of the mental...not expression but immediate construction." [3]


"...in becoming aware of the thought nascent within us...when we speak to the other, thus sweeping him into truth, as if himself, by himself, were discovering it......the priciple of the exteriority of language and of thought [and feelings]: one has a 'picture' in the mind and one seeks to 'render' it." [4]


[2] All photos by Rae Mearkle
[1], [3], [4] Barthes, Roland, The Semiotic Challenge

Space -- A Definition

Space can be part of a structure. A concrete entity -- bounded and obvious. 

It can be a more tenuously defined area without concrete structures but with a boundary -- a limit.

Or it can be limitless with occupying bodies but no boundaries nothing defined and nothing concrete.

Space, Within:

Space, Bounded:

Space, Limitless:

Each space has particular connotations.  

They are formed by what we place in these spaces.  These individual pieces create our imagination of places and the spaces they reside in or make up.

[1] All photos by Rae Mearkle