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MELTING I noticed that melting is used a lot by designers and artists. Mostly in the mids of melting. It is a effective way to disrupt a normal object. To change its iconic sense. It shows the ability of change from one state to another. The frozen image becomes an unfinished story. Leaving us with questions like. How far will it keep on melting? Will the object rise from its puddle? Will it change into something else? One of the first melting objects was painted in ‘The persistence of memory’ (1931) by Salvador Dali. Here he introduced the image of the soft melting pocket watch. It is said to be an example of Dalí’s theory of “softness” and “hardness”, which was central to his thinking at the time. It was not inspired by the theory of relativity of Einstein as sugested by Dawn Ades, but by the surrealist perception of a Camembert cheese melting in the sun. Østersøen (Ödland, Sankta Lucia) by Lorenzo Papace
Satellite Collections by Jenny Odell
Chair by Myeongbeom Kim |