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Codexes, boundaries, making meaning

Shermain Lee

Monday, Jan 23, 2017 - 05:39:43 pm

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So i’ve been looking into codex as a possible final form of my fyp. In a way, developing from the idea of the codex as a dictionary, a way of classification of things and the way in which we should classify things led me to think about boundaries, or how do we dissect/ make sense of the world or specifically Read more →

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Vanitas symbols and motifs + installation

Benjamin Sim

Monday, Jan 23, 2017 - 04:34:12 pm

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Vanitas – Still Life, Pieter Claesz, 29.5 × 34.5 cm (11.6 × 13.6 in), Oil Painting

A vanitas painting contains collections of objects symbolic of the inevitability of death and the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures; it exhorts the viewer to consider mortality and to repent. (https://global.britannica.com/art/vanitas-art)

Using motifs to symbolise the futility of life, Read more →

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Artist references for transient nature of art : Alwar Balasubramaniam

Benjamin Sim

Friday, Jan 20, 2017 - 01:13:41 am

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from the comments section of his TED talk:

…it was a reminder to view the world as a continuum and also, to let the imagination explore rather than be rooted in what we expect to see.

Jane Hill

The art in itself is not where the attention is meant to focus here. But on questions of perception, creation possibilities, and everything that lies Read more →

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