For my final version of this project, I chose to print the posters on bags. Jenny Holzer had had thing great idea to give her art a new dimension and the potential to go around town to spread messages in a more effective way.
(My inspiration from Jenny Holzer’s work)
For practice reasons, I knew I couldn’t do the whole work myself. Indeed, I was travelling back to Geneva that weekend and the whole purpose of my work was for it to be in Paris. I decided to make the best out of this problem. Artists need to make compromises all the time, for legal or financial reasons for example, so why shouldn’t I?
I printed four bags, one for each design, gave them to four different people and gave them these instructions: “The aim of the game is to take pictures of the bags with your stuff in it and on doors (typical Parisian doors preferably ). The bag represents the cultural bagage you carry around as you step in (that’s where the door comes in) your new life here in Paris.”
The first bag, the one with the rice printer on it, I gave to Jonathan. He is German and lives in Nasia’s dorm. He is what is closest to what Hong Kong represents to Nasia within Paris.
Here are some of the pictures he took – I did mention that my request for them to be typical Parisian doors didn’t apply to him.
The second one, with the bible, I gave Nik, a British friend studying fashion design. The third on (Swiss knife) I gave Farah and the last to Mona. Three people from different backgrounds, culture and religion.
I presented the project in class this way:
The feedback was good. I was told I could have cut the white boarders, which I agree on and that it was interesting to see how I had given this new dimension to my work.
If I had had time to complete my work perfectly, I would have wanted to print more bags that would have been displayed behind the door, so that everyone would have had to carry their cultural baguage though the door representing a step in life.
