WITE CUBE MINI Project – Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
THE SILKWORM COCOON, 2011
Primo Levi
»The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colours and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.«
Neuman Erich; CREATIVE MAN AND TRANSFORMATION
“How infinitely vast is the realm evoked by the word transformation; it embraces every change, every strengthening and slackening, every broadening and narrowing, every development, every change of attitude, and every conversion... Even the normalization and adaptation of a neurotic individual to a given cultural environment appear to one observer as a transformation of personality...” (p. 150)
“The fact that the festivals and rites of transformation are almost always brought into consonance with the division of the year shows that the transformations of human development are experiences as one with the transformation of the natural world. In other words, the nature symbolism of the phenomena of psychic transformation is experienced not only in itself but also as an authentic identity of inside and outside: new consciousness, birth of the light, and the winter solstice are one. ...the fundamental phenomenon, common no doubt to all mankind, is a transformation that is induced by the cultural collectivity and prepares the individual for life in the collectivity.” (p. 155)
Bibliography:
· Dictionary.com. (2011). Prevzeto 21. 3 2011 iz Dictionary.com, LLC: http://quotes.dictionary.com/search/metamorphosis?rh=www.google.si&__utma=1.151955401.1300053975.1300193271.1300714375.3&__utmb=1.23.9.1300715274699&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1300714375.3.3.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=dictioanry&
· Neuman, Erich. (1959). Art and the Creative Unconscious. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
The instalation is presented with a manua on how to grow silkworms.
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