When we began with our next assignment to look at our families past and see if we could find ourselves contextually with the economic and political situations, I was at a complete loss. I found out I had by far the most boring family. My great grand dads where big in their own ways, one a cop who worked for the british till we got our freedom, one who started his own jewelry business, the very first one in my town. Another was almost treated like a king in Bangalore. Owned lots of land was well known by most of the people, helped the government during draughts and economically once in a while. But nothing big. Nothing that excited me.
So I decided to look at an aspect of my family I felt most strongly about and then trace it backwards. One thing about my family that stood out for me was how they have instilled this repulsion against gold in me. For the past three generations both sides of my family have dealt with gold. The result of it on me being that I can't stand gold. Its not too bad but in general I keep my distance from it. My father is pretty disappointed to not get my feed back on the new gold jewelry designs.
So when I dug around a little more I found out one of my grand uncles used to smuggle gold. Now this information is a family secret of sorts, something they aren't particularly proud of. But to me I had hit jackpot. An adventurous story about my family, where someone decided to do something risky. (They aren't happy that I decided to talk about the whole 'incident' in the first place, I couldn't resist myself though) But unfortunately it menat no one int he family was willing to give me details about the whole smuggling deal.
So what I decided to do was find a way to represent it metaphorically. and my final piece was a frame where I tried pulling out the interesting aspects of the gold, from the gold that already exist in my life.
I added a sound clip to it as it wasn't dynamic enough.
I wasn't too satisfied with this project, it kinda felt forced in many ways... Even after reflecting I am not sure why I had an issue while working with this project.
So I decided to look at an aspect of my family I felt most strongly about and then trace it backwards. One thing about my family that stood out for me was how they have instilled this repulsion against gold in me. For the past three generations both sides of my family have dealt with gold. The result of it on me being that I can't stand gold. Its not too bad but in general I keep my distance from it. My father is pretty disappointed to not get my feed back on the new gold jewelry designs.
So when I dug around a little more I found out one of my grand uncles used to smuggle gold. Now this information is a family secret of sorts, something they aren't particularly proud of. But to me I had hit jackpot. An adventurous story about my family, where someone decided to do something risky. (They aren't happy that I decided to talk about the whole 'incident' in the first place, I couldn't resist myself though) But unfortunately it menat no one int he family was willing to give me details about the whole smuggling deal.
So what I decided to do was find a way to represent it metaphorically. and my final piece was a frame where I tried pulling out the interesting aspects of the gold, from the gold that already exist in my life.
I wasn't too satisfied with this project, it kinda felt forced in many ways... Even after reflecting I am not sure why I had an issue while working with this project.
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