
Keeping in mind my previous concept of time, i began thinking of other pieces of work that could work alongside it to reinforce the idea of repetition even further.
I wanted to create a piece of work that would explore the idea of repetitive notions and experiences that we all go through on a regular basis without being consciously aware. Like the idea of time, we all share this experience and for the most part we are unaware of the seconds and minutes passing by unless we have some activity scheduled for within that day. So i wanted to create a piece of work that echoed this same idea but it had to be something that we all expperience and that we all share.
It occurred to me that there is one thing that we all go through every second of everday without really realising it, our heartbeat. Our hearts beat around 100,000 times a day which equals around 35million times a year. On average our heats beat around 2.5 billion times within the average human lifespan.
Along with time, the heart is one of the single most repetitive things on the planet and only stops repeating its process when an individual dies either permanently or temporarily.
Every human being has a heart and our hearts are constantly beating away inside of us and we are mostly completely unaware of it until certain moments such as when we run and it beats harder. This is something that connects every person on the planet, disregarding age, race and gender.
This first concept design that i came up with was the idea to make a large sculpture of a heart and have polaroid photographs of everyone i encountered within a week attached all over it to emphasise the fact we are all connected by our hearts. This concept involved the creation of a large scale sculpture of a human heart which would actually beat as a real heart would, with a mechanical system inside which would create the illusion of the pulsating heartbeat.
The aim is so that when the viewer looked upon the piece they would feel and see some form of connection that unifes us all and echoes the precious nature of life.
The blog is looking good! You should put some images of the different stages of the making of the 'heart' sculpture.
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