Ordinary Life, Finding the Extraordinary
In my reading of Sister Corita and her techniques I came across the ultra-simple finder. The finder is a square or rectangle—THINK: a projection slide with the film part removed—used to focus or narrow down onto a detail. It allows us to visually exclude in order to see more clearly a smaller part of a whole. When is a bottle more than just a shape made of glass—when we can re-frame it as a blue sky or luminescent lake surface. So many things become Other.
Tatsuya Tanaka is a Japanese artist who has been using masks
and other household items to create pocket-sized scenes. He is an example of
someone using Covid to make something new. The ordinary suddenly takes on new
meaning—and for a moment we can chuckle, our minds wandering elsewhere.
You can find Tanaka on Instagram .
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