Human Body Wrap Examples

by Ana Mendiet

by Nick Cave

by Joan Jonas 

“The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the 3 dimensional into the miniature that which can be enveloped by the body”

http://connect.ons.org/ons-connect-blog/is-hugging-an-important-nursing-intervention-or-an-avenue-for-trouble

A souvenir is simply a representative of an experience. A souvenir represents something which is bigger than itself.

“Nostalgia can not be sustained without loss”

http://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/buildingselfesteem/2013/09/behave-like-an-adult-build-self-esteem/

As people grow older we experience lose and gain. Oftentimes, in order to understand what we have lost, we must lose it. Whether it is someone we love or even the simple wide-eyed wonder of being a child. 

“To have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and a trophy."

http://sfcitizen.com/blog/2009/09/23/be-sure-to-leash-your-dog-or-white-tiger-when-visiting-duboce-park/

A souvenir is something which can be used to remember something. Whether it is an event, place, or person. It is something which is often displayed as a symbol of pride. Such as a traditional African mask on the fireplace, a silk kimono from Japan that can be worn at parties, or a tiger from Asia to have as a pet. Souvenirs are a mental thing. It all depends on the person and what they view as a souvenir. 

"Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience"

The Gates of Paradise by Lorenzo Ghiberti

Ghiberti spent 27 years completing these doors. He had labored on these for so long. Making them an  experience for him. Even though these doors are simply objects. Ghiberti would have seen them as an experience for the amount of time and sweet he put into them. He had created a masterpiece which he would look back on as an experience. Even the great Michelangelo had said they were "truly worthy to be the Gates of Paradise".

 http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/ghiberti/themes.html

"The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale"

http://www.four-magazine.com/articles/874/minimiam-where-tiny-people-find-big-food

Scale gives us our perceptions of objects and organisms in life. In this picture the peanut appears larger than the man. However, in real life the viewer knows the peanut is much smaller than any human.

http://ec2-75-101-145-29.compute-1.amazonaws.com/art21/artists/janine-antoni

Janine Antoni uses a variety of methods in multiple pieces of her art. Personally, some of the materials she used were a little strange to me. Such as her use of cow hide and lard to create a molding of herself. There were other techniques of portraying her message without having to waste quantities of animal. It is one thing to use an animal as a source of food. However, her use of animals seems almost as unnecessary as Lady Gaga’s meat dress. She does take the viewpoint of the cow in her photograph titled 2038. In which she was taking a bath using a cow trough which was also a bathtub. I found this to be interesting and liked how she was able to put herself in the cow’s position and allow the animal to almost drink from her. I also liked how Antoni used her own hair to paint the floor of a room. I am not sure what she was trying to portray but the design and texture was beautiful. Also, her use of the chocolate and soap to make a bust of herself puts an interesting perspective on our current soup project. Antoni doesn’t just appreciate her artwork for its beauty, she also eats it and bathes herself with it. She uses strange techniques but I like her project with the soap and chocolate because it was dynamic and fascinating to see how the forms evolved.