| Re: expanding the metaphor and thinking |
From: Jogi Panghaal (11/04/1999 18:30:00)
I am caught in Italy where public internet access is poor but still I am trying to keep in touch with the world. At our exhibition of crafts from India here in Bolzano we get a lot of visitors young and old including children. Yesterday we had two interesting experiences: One was a child who came with his single father. He was five and very curious. He touched every animal figure in metal, bronze, clay and would show amazing expression every time he came across a diffrent texture.Going around the objects with him made me see the exhibit in the form of pure textures, to be held in hand and to be felt, unmindful of what the object was and for what function it was meant to be. It was nice to see that surfaces can become playing fields. Second was a gentleman, a senior citizen who would stand in front of the objects and make big bodily movements, gestures, more like that of a conductor, very graceful. It is perhaps the kind of movements one makes when faced with caligraphy after one has watched caligraphic performence.It was wonderful to see an object move the onlooker and our artisan friends who are here could,nt believe their eyes that they were able to move an Italian gentleman like this. A built object can recreate in the onlooker the movements of its creation if both share a notion of play in their bodies.. so long, Jogi
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