One of the doners ( my pops) came to visit me, he walked right by it, then walked through the entire gallery and then saw me and started to laugh very, very hard.
my mum( doner #2) was in BC, so she couldn't visit her precious individual.
there were a couple of things about this project that surprised me one was how startled people got when the saw me. A lot of this was a result of the location but even after that people were still very taken back by the splitting of my body. I think that is in part a result of the use of the connotations and expectations of a pedestal. I felt fairly normal in the box until i saw pictures. Then I was able to understand and place what people were saying. this sense of surprise is important and ( emotion) allows the piece to be more accessible.
As a human " bust" was able to make the roles of subject and object interchangeable. the structure forced me into the role of an object while the fact that i was moving, talking, listening etc made me the subject again. The space around me also became activated in a new way because those who weren't comfortable were forced all the way against the wall (across from me). While some people I didn't even know came very very close or touched me. I guess i didn't really expect that.
One thing that I was hoping for is that I would be come a type of monument or meeting place. this happened consistently through out my time there. People started by talking to me and then to each other, slowly forgetting about me. Being stuck there I became an audience for people who passed by and weren't rushed. I spent a lot of time talking to people who I normally wouldn't( like the administrates).
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sorry this is such a mess I'm kind of brain storming.
