Thursday, December 6, 2007

Image Essay # 10



I’m not sure if this is a piece of art by an artist or if it is just an image from a shitty jewelry website, but none the less this object and the values it carries with it can all be derived from the shape of the object. Shapes can carrying colors, meanings, values and anything else a person wants it too. Shapes are in our everyday lives under our noses, underlying in every action we take or make. Just as I’m typing now on a rectangular keyboard on relatively square keys each one defined a value and a symbol so I can communicate on a square screen while looking at a gold ring. Shapes are almost too abstract to define, along the lines of the color I feel we can never fully understand shapes. For each person takes shape to a personal level. As a child one creates and takes particular shapes and colors and describes them as their favorites and most times those favorites last a life time. This ring carries with it different meanings from one culture to another from state to another, from one person to another. Each person my think of their wife or husband or a failed attempt at marriage. Once again each person takes and makes their own in art.

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