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VALARIA TATERA


THE INSTALLATION ARTIST VALARIA TATERA PROVIDE ME A NEW IDEA OF USING THE RIBBONS: SHE CREATES HER ARTWORK WITH TONES OF RIBBONS HANGING ON THE CELLING. HER INSPIRATION OF THE ARTWORK IS FROM THE WISCONSIN STATE FOR BEING A HOME FOR EMBRACE THOSE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. AND THE IDEA IS ABOUT THE HOLDING SPACE FOR INDIGENOUS. IN HER ARTWORK I COULD DEEPLY FEEL HER IDEA. BASED ON MY UNDERSTANDING, THE RIBBONS OVERALL CREATED A GIANT PLACE, WHICH INDICATE THE STATE OF WISCONSIN. AND EACH RIBBON REPRESENTS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, IN BETWEEN THE RIBBONS, THERE ARE BLANKS, WHICH ARE REPRESENT THE INDIGENOUS WHO WITHOUT THE STABLE LIVING ENVIRONMENT, WITHOUT THE BACKUPS, AND WITHOUT GOOD SOCIAL CONNECTION. THE USAGE OF RIBBON IS A BRILLIANT IDEA SINCE MANY RIBBONS TOGETHER COULD CREATE SPACE, BUT EACH RIBBON COULD ALSO REPRESENT SOME INDIVIDUALS.

ACCORDING TO MCLUHAN: “WE EMPLOY VISUAL AND SPATIAL METAPHORS FOR A GREAT MANY EVERYDAY EXPRESSIONS. WE INSIST ON EMPLOYING VISUAL METAPHORS EVEN WHEN WE REFER TO PURELY PSYCHOLOGICAL STATES, SUCH AS TENDENCY AND DURATION.” IN THIS QUOTE, MCLUHAN MENTIONED THE VISUAL METAPHOR, AS THE RELATION TO TATERA’S WORK THE VISUAL METAPHOR IS SOMETHING CLOSE RELATED TO HER IDEA OF REPRESENTING THE INDIGENOUS (I HAD INTERPREATED ABOVE). WE SEE THE ARTWORK WE READ THE METAPHOR.  





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