Final thesis for the art work.

It is displaying in the UICA during Art Prize.


The Final Thesis for the Art Work:

I burned and donated it all, the entirety of my art work. I burned it out of frustration, rage and sadness. I donated it out of guilt and resourcefulness.

Most of the world has lost the ability to understand pictures, expressions, forms, stories and words. We are no longer able to make connections between things, and through those connections, to find meanings. We have lost the ability to find meanings.

We have lost the hungry curiosities for meanings in the midst of the distractions that are bombarding our life, from the media to consumer culture. We have settled, content to be ignorant and clueless. We have traded what defines us as humans - curiosity and rationality - to exchange for the bliss of ignore. We have fallen.

So I burned and donated what I wished to show you, a summer long investigation and experiment on the theme, ”A Perfect Human in his Imperfect Habitat”, to beg for your curiosity. In our culture, where we exploit and take for granted all that we have gained and possess, what we have gained loses meaning as we lose interest in the connection we have to our possessions, the world, and each other.  Instead of asking you to find meaning through the numbing act of receiving, I hope that the painful act of losing will finally be able to make you care, make you curious, and make you search for the meanings.

About the red boxes...

Dear readers,

I am here to announce that the "True Grand Rapids Library Project" have been so very successful and I am so thankful for all your support and participation. I am also here to announce that the project is going to come to a close as the date of the Art Prize weeks are approaching. I need to gather the red boxes up and have them ready to be a part of the display which will be showing in the UICA (Urban Institution of Contemporary Art, the old building on Sheldon Av.) I am going to gather them all up on next Wednesday which is August 25. If you want to put few more of your thoughts in the books, please do so before it is all gathered back by me.

Thanks again for all the great entries that you all had contributed. It was a great success and it cannot had done so without each and every one of you.

Thank you so much.
and upon the gathering, I shall post all the entries on the blog so that you can read and learn it all.


Patrick

Sorry for the long period of no posting...

Dear Readers,

It had more than a week since I last posted anything... I been working hard and re-evaluating all aspect of the whole project from the thesis/ statement of the project to the lay out of the display... I been working hard to find the best direction for the project and I think I had come to a few directions that I am very excited to be marching on. I had been going over all my blog entries and all the notes that I had taken for this project; I been studying them one by one with great details. I cannot believe how much I had learned over this 2 and a half months of researching and experimenting. I think I am almost ready for the next step of the experiment and I cannot wait to share with you all.

I cannot wait to share it all, the whole presentation of this experiment with everyone of you during the art prize show time period in the UICA (Urban Institution of Contemporary Art). I cannot believe it is only 39 days until its opening day. There are still so much that I wish to experiment and present to you all; I got to work hard this few weeks. I am so excited to share with you all all the things that I had learned and came to experienced. I can not wait.

In the mean time, I shall continue to work hard.
I just want to drop in and say hi to you all and to show you all I am still alive and well.
I wish you all continue to follow this blog and the journey that I will be on.

Thanks for all your supports!!



Patrick

Plan had change...

Dear Readers,

The experiment had been stopped, I don't know yet will it be just be a small break and that it is finished and a new direction will be taken. There are a lot on my mind and I am trying to think through them and made the right decision. It had occur to me that the direction and the effectiveness of the project had not been what I expected and I am a bit disappointed at the result. So now I am in the process of reevaluating the project and trying to decide how can I improve it and what new direction I need to undertake.

Thanks for all your supports and interests.
All the best.



Patrick

Dear reader, The tool kit shall be with me in this journey!!!

Dear readers,

I had decided that I will be using my tool kit and the traveling manual on my journey. I was indeed worry about the disconnection between the people and I. I did not want to be seen as a performer and I did not want my neighbors to be my audiences. And that is why I decided to live in simplicity and through that hopefully I can connect my story to other's, for I believe that one's life story is the most compelling things for people. One's life story is the most powerful thing to compells people to change and to bring actions. But there is one thing that I forgot to think about... it is that the power of a life story is not resides in its power to act as an example to people's life, but it resides in the questions that it bring up within people. Those questions is the building block of people's believe and life. It is those questions that compells people to find the answer for themselves. It is those self discovered answers to life questions that people follow and live accordingly. A person can not give an idea to another person and expects that idea will last long, but an idea that is discovered by one's self, it will stay forever until another self discovered belief comes. So it is not my best interest to live a life that people can follow and copy, but instead to live in a way that bring questions to other's life so they can through this oppontunity and discover his or her own answer for life. So I had decdied to use my tool kit as it is surely a great way to bring out questions that I wish to bring out.

Thanks for your reading and support all these time.
Hope to see you all with my tool kit along my journey.

Please keep in touch!


Patrick