TOY AND SCALE

PROMT 1

The refrigerator involves toys given by Chad and bought from thrift stores.  I consider the toys as art work because they have peculiar experiences of the past by people who are now the adult audiences in the exhibition space. The installation expresses my interest in objects that have signs of history and Susan referenced the doll in the context of nostalgia in terms of terms how one’s childhood experience is relevant to them in their adulthood. 

PROMPT 2

I want to quote Susan Stewart,  "30 minutes would be experienced in 5 minutes at ½ scales and in 2.5 minute at 1/24 scale"(Susan). In this type of scale Susan is referring to the miniature which is the small scale work there is a sense of intimacy. Within that moment of experience is where the viewer takes time to see the detail the work thus the color, the finish and texture. According Robert Morris mentions in his Notes on Sculpture part 2, "the intimate mode is essentially closed, spaceless, compressed and exclusive.” Here there is an inter-dialogue between the work and viewer and no other world is included. Susan also added that mention "whereas speech unfolds time, the miniature unfolds in space". The large scale is always public and inclusive, there is always openness and everyone sees the work simultaneously, like a monument. Consequently, both the miniature and the gigantic may be described through metaphors of containment, the miniature as contained the gigantic as container. Yayoi Kusama's Dot Matrix and where color dots have occupied the entire space even the objects within, you imagine the experience of the viewer in terms of movement whereas in Meret Oppehein 's Object one has to get closer to the object and see the detail. The viewer feels the desire to hold it in his or her hands and experience the texture.