Presenting a multi-billion dollar art piece
Titled Love and Loss, it is the first of a series of Zhi Xin's masterpieces, destined to be auctioned off for nothing under 56 billion dollars! And that's UK pounds, mind you, not monopoly money. The amount of significance behind this work is astounding! The artist shall attempt to let you all gain an understanding of the profound meaning behind this work, although words are never enough to describe its sheer depth. But being the ever-so-altruistic artist that she is, aiming to enlighten people who are not naturally artistically inclined, she will try her best.
The three boxes represent the three dimensions of time-- the past, the present and the future. Being overwhelmed by the past is a tendency most of us fall into simply because the past provides our only yardstick for comparison, and so is represented by the biggest box-- the amount of space it takes up in our lives is directly proportional to the sizes of the boxes. See those crosses on it? Those are symbolic of the scars we have accumulated in the past due to loss; at the same time, the many crosses show the trial and error we've had to undergo. They are also reminiscent of the chains we put over ourselves, letting ourselves we locked to an everlasting unchanging past and allowing little to escape from this "deep ocean" that is our heart, as quoted from Titanic.
The smallest box stacked on top would then represent the present. This arrangement is significant of how we build our present on top of the past; also, the size shows how often we fail to immerse ourselves in the moment, choosing instead to dwell in history.
This leaves the last box to represent the future. This last box is slightly awry compared to the previous two boxes, showing how the future is always somewhat different from what we have and what we had; at the same time its lack of lines on it as compared to the past represent how much we desire for it to be a clean slate. It is also more illuminated compared to the past, symbolizing how much hope we place on it, as compared to the darkness that shadows our losses. This illumination spreads slightly to the biggest box, lightening the burden of our history. You might have noticed that the light source appears to come from a spot slightly above the smallest box; indeed, the failure to immerse ourselves in the moment is co-relational to the amount of hope we possess. Because we are unsatisfied with the present, we harbour large amounts of hope towards the future, and this casts a further shadow on our past because what we want throws the losses we have had into greater relief.
The darkness around the boxes are also symbolic of the closed, almost claustrophobic space we close ourselves into in dealing with love, so much that we are unable to open ourselves up to possibilities. At the same time, the vast white space surrounding the darkness represents the potential that all of us have to untangle the trap of the past, and the grey areas spreading out from the black background show our constant attempts to do so.
I hope that through this synopsis you are slightly more enlightened about the deep meaning that dwells within my art piece. No, the white areas are not because I ran out of paint. Did you just say that everyone in my art class painted the same piece thus making my piece not original? What, you mean nobody painted the starry night sky before Van Gogh did? We all have different interpretations of these three boxes and this is physically represented by the different angles of which we painted our boxes. No, it is not only because we were standing in a circle around the boxes leading to the different angles, although of course that is a factor. AIYOH STOP LOOKING AT MY PROFOUND ART PIECE IF YOU CANNOT APPRECIATE IT YOU UNCULTURED UNENLIGHTENED NOOB GO DO YOUR MATH OR SOMETHING
1 flowers
1 Comments:
to quote freud. Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar.
far and wee
you and i together mysteriously and always floating
Sunday, February 28
1:15 PM
, at
3:14 PM