Today I went to the school base room to further work with Artefact project. It was a process of trials and errors to discover ideas and develop understanding along the way.

Currently, my exploration of interest was with the ‘symbolic’ quality of an object, so I played it further with my current model of my character Chaiglang that I made a few days before with materials I found from my flat room.

I changed and played with its parts to see how recognition of an object or this case, a character, works. I also questioned about ‘what contribute an object as a non-human?’

The process turned into an exploration of addition and reduction of the character’s figure elements, which I also treated them as symbols. How symbolic language is used in trying to recognise a certain character for example, for my character of Chaiglang, he has a very big nose, would it still be him if the nose is changed from one to another material? Also, if there is no nose at all, will this object still be recognisable as him?

I used the hard end of a banana peel as his nose, I also changed the nose from two different bananas to observe any differences. The result didn’t show much difference, he still looks mostly the same.

Since banana’s colour would change according to its ripeness, I questioned also how the colour of the banana skin would affect the interpretation of my character.

I continued experimented changing other elements like the leaf hair, to see whether the whole object could still symbolised him.

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Below is my current workspace that gathered ‘symbols’ of the current projects.

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