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soc_puppet) wrote2013-05-14 10:43 pm
soc_puppet) wrote2013-05-14 10:43 pm
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That thing what I got on Saturday
Y'all remember me writing about a trade I made on Saturday, right? Right. Well, it's time to share a picture of it!
CONTENT NOTE: Musical instrument reconstruction, fake gore ("stabbing", fake blood, fake internal organs).
[Image description: Old violin with body cut open to reveal crocheted internal organs, fake puncture wounds, "stabbed" with its own bow. Small plastic ribcage positioned over the bottom of the fingerboard, small plastic skull attached to the top of the scroll, half a plastic bone in place of one of the tuning pegs.]
If anyone is concerned about that, the instrument was beyond repair before the artist got it, so re-purposing it as art is simply inspired. God, isn't it just glorious? The instant I saw it I fell in love. It's just so--!
It invokes the idea of music as a living thing, something that has a soul and that can touch almost all of us. It suggests that we can open it up to examine it and take it apart and put it back together, and while we can get close to understanding the form and functions, there will likely always be something we never truly understand about it. There is both a passion to it, albeit a violent one, in the various stab wounds, and a clinicality to the almost surgical opening in the midsection of the body, not unlike the marriage of creativity and logic inherent to music itself.
It draws attention and provokes strong emotion and deep thought, and if that doesn't define art at its essence, then you and I have very different definitions of the concept.
(It may also appeal to me on a primal level as a violist, in the same way that, say, something made of destroyed and bloody knitting needles would appeal to me as a crocheter, but it's mostly the stuff up there.)
The artist is Jody Stoffer; she can be found on Etsy at PaJama Love. There's nothing listed there at the moment, but she said she has another violin and two cellos (all beyond repair) in the wings waiting to be re-purposed, so if you're interested and have the funds, I suggest contacting her for a commission.
CONTENT NOTE: Musical instrument reconstruction, fake gore ("stabbing", fake blood, fake internal organs).
[Image description: Old violin with body cut open to reveal crocheted internal organs, fake puncture wounds, "stabbed" with its own bow. Small plastic ribcage positioned over the bottom of the fingerboard, small plastic skull attached to the top of the scroll, half a plastic bone in place of one of the tuning pegs.]
If anyone is concerned about that, the instrument was beyond repair before the artist got it, so re-purposing it as art is simply inspired. God, isn't it just glorious? The instant I saw it I fell in love. It's just so--!
It invokes the idea of music as a living thing, something that has a soul and that can touch almost all of us. It suggests that we can open it up to examine it and take it apart and put it back together, and while we can get close to understanding the form and functions, there will likely always be something we never truly understand about it. There is both a passion to it, albeit a violent one, in the various stab wounds, and a clinicality to the almost surgical opening in the midsection of the body, not unlike the marriage of creativity and logic inherent to music itself.
It draws attention and provokes strong emotion and deep thought, and if that doesn't define art at its essence, then you and I have very different definitions of the concept.
(It may also appeal to me on a primal level as a violist, in the same way that, say, something made of destroyed and bloody knitting needles would appeal to me as a crocheter, but it's mostly the stuff up there.)
The artist is Jody Stoffer; she can be found on Etsy at PaJama Love. There's nothing listed there at the moment, but she said she has another violin and two cellos (all beyond repair) in the wings waiting to be re-purposed, so if you're interested and have the funds, I suggest contacting her for a commission.
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I appreciate the 'instrument reconstruction' warning, too - somehow redoing plastic toys doesn't get to me, but instruments or books? Yikes. Forewarned is fore-in-a-headspace-to-appreciate-this-cool-art, in this case. :)
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Sure thing; while use in art doesn't bother me for whatever reason, I get really twitchy at even the mention of purposeful or accidental destruction of instruments in general, so I figured it'd be good to warn. I mean, in this case I feel that it also plays into the "shock value" of the art, but that's also a reason why I get that not everyone would be okay with it.
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I love the Stoffers so much. And that is a gorgeous piece.
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Jody is awesome; I just spent ~3.5 hours crafting up a storm with her and Steven Todd this afternoon. Fun times! Haven't really spent much time with Jason, though I'm sure he's also awesome.