For the second activity of Lesson 7, it was surprisingly another group activity. This time we were supposed to curate another collection but using another group's found objects.
"With the previous objects collected by members of your group, curate and create a means of exhibition using text and display techniques to define, prioritize and emphasize meaning."
Although the text above did not talk about using another group's previously found objects, that was what we were instructed to do. These were the objects of the other group we had to use, displayed in this picture as it was curated as part of their activity 1 (see "Ellasal Artifacts - A Collection of Essentials" for what activity 1 entails):
This was how we curated it with a new and different understanding of the objects:
As part of the activity, we were supposed to incorporate text in some way. We did this through "wall text" on the computer as featured above here. The objective of this activity was so that each of the other groups and the lecturer had to look at the work and text and try to understand it without our explanation, after which we will then properly explain our concept.
Memorial To Our Roots
It is a memorial to our dying world, which is being overtaken by human minds and technology
Every day, we turn our backs to the world. The pervasive presence of technology and human greed invade it, and we do not return the favour which nature has granted us.
We box ourselves away and separate ourselves from the rest of the world, thinking ourselves as higher than all other living beings. But as we destroy nature, we also destroy ourselves.
As we seek to evolve ourselves and keep growing, we should not turn a blind eye to the world around us.
I feel that it was quite an interesting activity that highlights the importance of clear explanation and integration of it with visuals to create a work that speaks for itself. Furthermore I feel we could have used the text in a wat that did not appear separate from the work but a part of it: maybe putting the computer nearer the collection in a way that creates more cohesion while not being too intrusive to the entire aesthetics?