Xerox Project

                         

My work is based on Marcel Duchamp idea of decontextualize a toilet into a water fountain. I chose Marcel Duchamp's Fountain 1917, because it was a revolutionary idea for its time. He belonged to Dada, which were trying to redefine the concept of art.  In today's world flipping an object and transform into another does not have the same impact as they did in Dada's time. It is because our concept of art are pretty much built by those ideas of Dada.

Flipping a toilet and transform it into a fountain and call it art is a concept that many struggle to understand. I decided to simplify the concept of Fountain 1917 by Marcel Duchamp. Instead transform the toilet into a fountain, I decided to transform an sculpture of my eyes. I chose my eyes for my Xerox Project because of Father from the Japanese animation Full Metal Alchemist.




Father



Father is the main antagonist in Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood. He is known as the obsession of   of seeking The Truth. In the end of Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Father  is able to be infront of The Truth but his obsession, he is not able to recognize it. I chose father because we have the pre-existed concept of art, and when we are in front of a master piece we are not able to recognize it.