MICHELLE WOODBRIDGE
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Inspiration in the Path of Philosophy Kyoto
and a temple in Kyoto. The path is a step stone of philosophers
quotes where you can question your life and purpose o free from
yourself. Is a collection of more than 100 quotes that will
inspire you or guide you in life
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'Tengo Hambre - I’m hungry’
'We are not a mass we are people' quotefrom 2013 New York Times
I read an article of a family that fought and struggle to maintain
themselves together and search for a lives meaning. They crossed
countries, they were exposed to the worst adversities, hiding,
starving, even question their integrity their self-meaning.
Those words open my eyes to what was going on to change my view
of massive to one by one. Because, we all are individuals with
someone to love and someone who loves us. It changed my view
of the important moment we are living and how they choose to
live. My figures are always stick together, helping each other,
searching for a leader that guide them. They need a guide and
welcoming hand. The white ceramic color represents peace and
goodwill. Is that white dove of surrender. The ceramic is fragile
it breaks as all the soul of the people that leaves behind.
The white canvas represents there is no road ahead to follow.
The wool that embrace the canvas represents shelter, a woven
unified sweater that will keep them warm and together.
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The Tsunami 2011 in the Pacific Ocean that hit
Japan had inspired me for this art work. I cut out several pictures
from newspapers at the time as an eye opening of the massive
impact in history and in life. The feeling I wanted to transmit
in this piece is a big wave of chaos and destruction all over
us. I used pieces of old wood that I gathered from constructions
that had been demolished. The idea was that each piece had a
history as all those homes that sank in the ocean leaving nothing
behind but shreds and pieces. People were encourage to walk
beneath the wave and stop at the middle to turn their heads
up. Pieces of paper ties that the Japanese rap in the - wish
trees or fortune telling - where wrapped around. The Tsunami
was exhibit in three different art spaces, in a Museum, in an
Art Auction and in a Gallery.
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This installation is a Photo Intervention called
'Somos Concreto - We are Concrete’ The Photo was taken by a
friend of mine in Japan and gave it to me as a gift for inspiration.
When I saw this massive number of window and concrete it made
me think ‘Who lived inside those windows?’ Are they people or
just body passing by through life’ I questioned myself if each
window had a heart for itself or probably not. But I imagined
that in each rectangular shape there is a musician, a writer,
an artist, a nature lover… some windows where cut out and music
chores, pieces of a book where installed so we didn’t loose
hope. To contrast this ‘Somos Concreto’ I worked with what is
invisible to our life the micro organism. Simbiosis is a piece
of work made with paper and ink of insects, bugs, nature itself
and where installed in this round acrylic frames acting as magnifying
glass of what is almost unknown to our eye. The hidden things,
the fragility, the impersonal of the massive with the miniature.
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