perolarisophie
4_Healing
Healing
size: 35x35cm
To make this piece ‘Healing’, I replicated Alberto Burri’s process of his artwork in how he glues, stitches, tears and cuts his art work. The only man-made materials I used to complete this piece is glue, string and cloth. The rest of the materials I used are all natural. These materials include soil, purple grapes, berries, coffee, ash as well as rust. I teared up bits of cloth and soaked them in berry juice. Some I wrapped in nails and left in water and other bits of cloth I buried in the soil for a few weeks. I then glued the pieces of cloth onto canvas and covered it with more soil, coffee and other natural materials. The effect of using natural materials makes this piece look very dirty, rustic, and humanistic as this piece itself represents my skin. Like Burri, I cut the canvas in two sections and stitched them back together again. These two stitches represent the pain that I have been through when having my feet operation. The composition of the cloth being laid onto the canvas and some overlapping each other emphasizes the different layers of skin a human has.
When looking at this artwork piece I feel and understand an emotional sensation of pain and empathy as I can relate to it with the pain that I myself have been through, but more importantly; how pain is still existing in many parts of the world today. In my opinion, I think humans create the most pain in the world today and this contrasts with the use of natural materials I used to accomplish ‘Healing’.
My choice of using the title ‘Healing’ confirms to us humans that pain can be healed, scars will always remain but this should not stop us from healing.
4_Healing
Healing
size: 35x35cm
To make this piece ‘Healing’, I replicated Alberto Burri’s process of his artwork in how he glues, stitches, tears and cuts his art work. The only man-made materials I used to complete this piece is glue, string and cloth. The rest of the materials I used are all natural. These materials include soil, purple grapes, berries, coffee, ash as well as rust. I teared up bits of cloth and soaked them in berry juice. Some I wrapped in nails and left in water and other bits of cloth I buried in the soil for a few weeks. I then glued the pieces of cloth onto canvas and covered it with more soil, coffee and other natural materials. The effect of using natural materials makes this piece look very dirty, rustic, and humanistic as this piece itself represents my skin. Like Burri, I cut the canvas in two sections and stitched them back together again. These two stitches represent the pain that I have been through when having my feet operation. The composition of the cloth being laid onto the canvas and some overlapping each other emphasizes the different layers of skin a human has.
When looking at this artwork piece I feel and understand an emotional sensation of pain and empathy as I can relate to it with the pain that I myself have been through, but more importantly; how pain is still existing in many parts of the world today. In my opinion, I think humans create the most pain in the world today and this contrasts with the use of natural materials I used to accomplish ‘Healing’.
My choice of using the title ‘Healing’ confirms to us humans that pain can be healed, scars will always remain but this should not stop us from healing.