Blanketing the Soul
mixed media, 168 x 155cm, 2017
I remembered when I was younger, my mom used to make quilts
for me and my siblings, she liked to use hexagon shape to cut the fabrics and
sew them together to make the quilts, so for me this homemade hexagon quilts
represented a mom's love, protection for the family, similarly in the nature, the
structure of honeycomb or beehive is in the shape of hexagons, is the place
where bees store honey and eggs, and is also an ideal place for bee to raise
their young. So for me the perfectly equal sizes of hexagon shapes represent
love, protection, union, domestic stability. The woman behind the hexagon
shapes symbolized the family, the traditional values which are the backbones to
form/provide the place where we are raised, where they shaped us to who we are
now in the society.
In this technology savvy era, a smart phone becomes a necessity in one life. It's supposed to help us to improve communication, to gain more info, but it is slowly taking over our life, we often saw people in a gathering, be it in a restaurant or at home, most peoples are concentrating on their smart phones than on family members, we lost the face to face communication, peoples are more interested in the virtual world, virtual friendships, virtual "like" or virtual "love". I have read a joke where a wife said to her husband: are you going to "see" me and talk to me only if I put the smart phone on my face?!" Sadly, nowadays most people see the "apple" through their smart phone, not through their eyes and heart! (Like hexagon, the "apple" for me is the symbol of love.) They are more interested in engrossing themselves in the world of a smartphone than face to face communication in real life.
In this technology savvy era, a smart phone becomes a necessity in one life. It's supposed to help us to improve communication, to gain more info, but it is slowly taking over our life, we often saw people in a gathering, be it in a restaurant or at home, most peoples are concentrating on their smart phones than on family members, we lost the face to face communication, peoples are more interested in the virtual world, virtual friendships, virtual "like" or virtual "love". I have read a joke where a wife said to her husband: are you going to "see" me and talk to me only if I put the smart phone on my face?!" Sadly, nowadays most people see the "apple" through their smart phone, not through their eyes and heart! (Like hexagon, the "apple" for me is the symbol of love.) They are more interested in engrossing themselves in the world of a smartphone than face to face communication in real life.
