Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Killing Jar
This is a series I made for Valentine Willie's Art - / +1000 show, 1 - 15 Dec 2005. It was billed as a 'sale' show, so little red 'sold' stickers spread like a desirable rash over the course of opening night. I'm very happy to say that a collector bought all four in the series! This means they will stay together - Happy Families.
These jars are the same ones that you find filled with sweets in coffeeshops and mamaks. You can get them at a dusty shop in Old PJ, alongside the most extensive collection of melamine-ware thine eyes will ever have the thrill of beholding.
In terms of collecting, sometimes the equipment is more fascinating than the collections themselves. Boxes, wooden framed cabinets with hinged lids of fine venetian glass, jars, labels, pins, nets, etc. They seem so futile! All about preserving, containing, classifying and displaying - they say a lot about the collector.
I don't really like to keep things, but when isolated in glass jars, transparent ideas take shape and form. They're very public because everyone can see inside, but they are still protected (trapped?) by fragile glass. This is pretty useful for observation purposes. Events can turn morbid though - leave the lids on too long and things die a slow death...
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Sharon Chin, City Scurvy, Acrylic on glass, 2005
[Couple of days ago, I recieved a phone call that informed me that whilst packing this work, the glass had slipped and cracked. This was in the early morning, and the call happened to retrieve me from a rather unpleasant nightmare I had been having. Weird.]
Sharon Chin, N.o. Substance : Disc 1 Disc 2, Acrylic on glass, 2005
[Numbers are the time for each song on New Order's double disc album Substance. Inside is the list of song titles]
Sharon Chin, Dream, Acrylic on glass & acetate, 2005
[Text is the parts of a sailing ship, minus the ship. Inside the inner bottle is a boat folded from clear acetate]
Sharon Chin, Lover, Acrylic on glass & windshield fragments, 2005
[Longtitude lines and lattitude lines. Two fragments from a broken windshield in their respective time zones]
These jars are the same ones that you find filled with sweets in coffeeshops and mamaks. You can get them at a dusty shop in Old PJ, alongside the most extensive collection of melamine-ware thine eyes will ever have the thrill of beholding.
In terms of collecting, sometimes the equipment is more fascinating than the collections themselves. Boxes, wooden framed cabinets with hinged lids of fine venetian glass, jars, labels, pins, nets, etc. They seem so futile! All about preserving, containing, classifying and displaying - they say a lot about the collector.
I don't really like to keep things, but when isolated in glass jars, transparent ideas take shape and form. They're very public because everyone can see inside, but they are still protected (trapped?) by fragile glass. This is pretty useful for observation purposes. Events can turn morbid though - leave the lids on too long and things die a slow death...
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Sharon Chin, City Scurvy, Acrylic on glass, 2005
[Couple of days ago, I recieved a phone call that informed me that whilst packing this work, the glass had slipped and cracked. This was in the early morning, and the call happened to retrieve me from a rather unpleasant nightmare I had been having. Weird.]
Sharon Chin, N.o. Substance : Disc 1 Disc 2, Acrylic on glass, 2005
[Numbers are the time for each song on New Order's double disc album Substance. Inside is the list of song titles]
Sharon Chin, Dream, Acrylic on glass & acetate, 2005
[Text is the parts of a sailing ship, minus the ship. Inside the inner bottle is a boat folded from clear acetate]
Sharon Chin, Lover, Acrylic on glass & windshield fragments, 2005
[Longtitude lines and lattitude lines. Two fragments from a broken windshield in their respective time zones]
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