MICHELLE WOODBRIDGE

 
 

“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”

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

'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.

 

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.

 

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.