What is it about craft art boxes? That, which at its most base, is allegedly just a container to transport or store something of greater import - transformed into that which it should be carrying or protecting!
The myriad rich tapestries, leathers, enamels, cloisonne' and other materials artists use to transform these vessels is almost endless.
The top container, with the cracked glass lens, reminds me of a futuristic movie - I can't remember the name right now, where eyes are robbed from people to gain access to secure places, and the protagonist, left in a squalid apartment with a grungy refrigerator with rotting food, has to get the eyeballs that are stored within, and get them implanted into himself, so he can see and then access where he needs to go. It was a most disturbing movie - and even though the rich tapestry and the box within don't really push that way, the total piece strikes me that way, today.
The red leather-like boxes hit me with "The Good Earth" insofar as they evoke a rural China - a few cherished handed down items from generations past, holding some family totem inside.
And then, your love of pestilence??? Flies - are they infesting the box, or have they been squashed by the box? Is the D part of "D D T"?! George Orwell's "1984" is somehow brought to mind. Maybe it's due to Rolt01's posting of Rick Wakeman's version, overlayed to clips of the movie - if they're still on You Tube - one of the music giants has been banning them for Copyright infringement, even though Rick, himself, has laid high praise on them.
The last box also has that aging China feel to it. what is inside? Jade treasures, a Hong Kong English Overlord's Cigars, or, maybe the Ivory Chop Sticks of a family, saved for special occassions? (I suppose it could be ancient Chinese "herbal" and other type medicinal cures - crushed bugs, snake parts, and similar . . .
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What is it about craft art boxes?
That, which at its most base, is allegedly just a container to transport or store something of greater import - transformed into that which it should be carrying or protecting!
The myriad rich tapestries, leathers, enamels, cloisonne' and other materials artists use to transform these vessels is almost endless.
The top container, with the cracked glass lens,
reminds me of a futuristic movie - I can't remember the name right now, where eyes are robbed from people to gain access to secure places, and the protagonist, left in a squalid apartment with a grungy refrigerator with rotting food, has to get the eyeballs that are stored within, and get them implanted into himself, so he can see and then access where he needs to go. It was a most disturbing movie - and even though the rich tapestry and the box within don't really push that way, the total piece strikes me that way, today.
The red leather-like boxes hit me with "The Good Earth" insofar as they evoke a rural China - a few cherished handed down items from generations past, holding some family totem inside.
And then, your love of pestilence??? Flies - are they infesting the box, or have they been squashed by the box? Is the D part of "D D T"?!
George Orwell's "1984" is somehow brought to mind. Maybe it's due to Rolt01's posting of Rick Wakeman's version, overlayed to clips of the movie - if they're still on You Tube - one of the music giants has been banning them for Copyright infringement, even though Rick, himself, has laid high praise on them.
The last box also has that aging China feel to it. what is inside? Jade treasures, a Hong Kong English Overlord's Cigars, or, maybe the Ivory Chop Sticks of a family, saved for special occassions?
(I suppose it could be ancient Chinese "herbal" and other type medicinal cures - crushed bugs, snake parts, and similar . . .
Your dark side is rubbing off on me!
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