I was listening to a lot of different movie analysis lately, for instance, the shinning, silence of the lamb, the exorcist, and clockwork orange was one of them that really fascinates me.
Here's the ones I've watched about clockwork orange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_ruIftriWs&t=154s
Clockwork Orange, directed by Stanley Kubrick, is an iconic adaptation of the novel under the same name discussing about violence or evil in humanity and morality of compelled goodness. While listening to one of its analysis on youtube I suddenly had the notion of sewing the peels of tangerines back to shape, and I did it.
The Idea of a clockwork orange is forcing artificial element or mechanism onto a living organism, which in some way eerie and immoral if you consider an orange to be as alive as animals or even human, the act of sewing peels to me is the same. Manually adding manmade material through dying/drying/rotting skins in attempt to maintain its shape before it was hollowed and consumed, it might look together but it'll still falling apart no matter what.
I also created a thin cup with masking tape playing with the idea of fragility and burden, and I put the sewed orange in the cup, sticked it on the wall sideways and hanged a wind chime that spells "BORNE" made by chocolate packaging, a visualisation of burdening fragility.
In the technical aspect, I at first tried the sewing with clear plastic thread so that the sewing will be less noticeable, which did not work and kept tearing edges of peels because it's too thin and sharp. Then I tried black thread and it really brings out the eeriness of it. The masking tapes are extremely weak but it surprisingly held up against the wall really well from 22.4.2020 to 6.5.2020 when it fell off during a tutorial with Jesus, pretty impressive staying up for exactly two weeks.
This is sort of a subconscious response to this movie and I really enjoyed it. Interesting to imagine how I should translate this to ceramics.
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