Changing views.
I find similitude in the shape of gothic vaults and Chiota´s installations. Vaults have a strong metaphorical meaning, as they were invented to hold high, massive ceilings. A second meaning is that most of those magnificient vaults are now a human heritage. Their architecture reminds us to times we never lived. To protect them is to hold memories.
However I want to focus my project on the needless ,when human attempts to protect memories are vain. I come with this imagery that Shiota tried to preserve memories , but her neurotic use of thread actually asphyxiates them. I would like the audience to feel the neurotism behind human nostalgia.
When I started looking at old , magnificent architecture I came to think about the people behind it. Not the emperors, but the slaves. People lost their lifes to erect symbols that resembled a believe , like churches, or a political power, like the egyptian pyramids. There is an anecdote about this topic. When the spanish conquerors arrived to what today is Mexico City , they found a breathtaking amount of buildings. It was so overwhelming that the thought only Gods could manage to erect them. They were slaves, most likely. So , over history , powerful people have pushed people to death in an attempt to create physical symbols that could carry memories and could also last.
Personalization.
The central question: Was it worthy?
So I started researching about the havoc left behind Second World War. I come back to the idea of Massive Accumulation. To face a war, to build an empire is a process that involves a lot of people. They may die, they may suffer. But surprisingly as governments slave more people, the single, personal experience of each seems to be less important. Imagine we have the new of a single kid being killed in peace times. Shameful, pitiful. Nowadayas there are wars in Middle Asia. Now the suffer of a massive amount of people doesn´t look actually like suffer, but as a quantity.
Slaves were forced to carry their own weight and the product´s weight. To carry one´s personal weight is also a metaphor. It is seen as healthy to manajer your personal problems by yourself, but to hold other´s people´s duties is useless and tiring.
Today I went to Regent´s Canal at Hackney. There is forgotten metal structure. I took photographs there. Then I tried to link the previous ideas with the environment, so I used thread, I built a web on the bars of the channel. I used my bike as as the "body" that carries. Results were naive but interesting. It was a first attempt to try to communicate . A random girl approached and mentioned that I actually looked aesthetic .