My life during the past two years is pretty much moving all the time, not settled at all. I am constantly putting myself in new environment. I found myself trying to minimalize my life as much as possible. It seems like my whole life can be packed into a suitcase(a big one probably). I could just go. I feel like I am surrounded by a lot more of those everywhere products from brands like IKEA, MUJI, maybe because the fact that even I have to move and throw a lot of stuff away, I can always get the exactly same one anywhere else in the world. In this way I feel secure. As the detachmemt(both physical and psychological)from my home in China has been there for a long time, I feel the division of my identity when I try to combine the life back home and life in Europe. I feel like a different person when I try to tell the my everyday life to my friends and family in a different continent. There is a line between my double life. This week's workshop I decided to make something that can save me from this division. I made an "ear" and a "mouth" out of clay. I hope to connect someone's separated double life with these object, create involvement of another life and eliminate the line between them. Hopefully in this way the division of identity will slowly disappear and the edge of both lives will be blurred in the end.
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