objects

I find the reading interesting, how he explains to people that he's a structural packaging designer. His posh title is a structural cardboard engineer that creates structures himself.  He thinks he is a packaging ninja slash wizard but not a box maker.  I find this reading hard to under stand but I think it's help full to read and get to under stand the artist.

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Deskilled craft and Borrowed skill.
I think this reading is confusing, because at first it starts talking about a sensitive part of our body and how its the most important organ in our body, talking about hands.  I think this reading is weird but you relise, thinking to yourself, it is important and agreeing with the reading.  When you think about it, you see with your eyes, smell with your nose, tast with your mouth, hear with your ears and feel with your hands.  With hands you get to create or use them for everyday uses.  With out hands what would you do if you had none.

DRaW, Va.

I think the Va powerpoint was interesting, learning about the changes with, tapa cloth and the history on how the Tapa cloth was created. I was interested on how the Cook Island, made a tapa cloth using patchwork.  The patterns look square, but i wonder, when I look at this tapa cloth, how did they have a red image, with a cream color background.  No one quite knows when the patchwork started in the Cook Islands, it has been suggested that it was introduced soon after contact in 1823 by the wives of Tahitian missionaries who helped introduce Christianity to the Cook Islands.

DRaW, Representation

Representation is something like a painting of a pipe.  The French think that, this is not a pipe, it's a representation of a pipe.  But when you say pipe some people would think, strate away this is a pipe.
  




                                                               This Pipe represents the plumbing pips thats used for flowing water or waste as well.





This pipe represents a smoke pipe that smokers use to smoke their tabaco.

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 Attracting Object...
This object attracts metal
I picked this object because a magnet only attracts metal.

 Identity...
I picked batman for the identity because allot of people know who batman is but don't really no who his real identity.

Wealthy Object...
 This crown show wealth. I picked this object because to me it sounds like it's saying wealthy.








Fun Object...
I like this object because its funny and it's a fun object.










Member of a group...
I picked the school uniform because it shows being a member of a group if you wear a school uniform.

DRaW, Modernity

What is Modernity?  Modernity is an age that has wealthy people, famous battles, war and history, but back in the 1840's to 1960's their were artist, who painted this tradition of war, famous battles, history and wealthy people.  Artist who refused to paint the traditions, lost the privilege of painting for the rest of their lives.   In France their was a gallery called the Salon in France. Having your work put up in the salon was an achievement for artists.  The Industrial age saw the beginning of the new middle class, factory, workers and photography was invented.  With the invention of photography artists were given the chance to break with the tradition at function of painting. As photography was invented, artists no longer had look back at tradition and paint the wealthy, war, famous battles and history anymore, because photography could do what artists could do, take a photo of the traditional happenings.  But that’s where factories came in, making jobs for people, giving the poor a chance to make money that creates the middle class.  I think, if their was no change in Modernity we might still be living, ether very poor, or very wealthy.  What I think Modernity is, it's a change that happen in the 1840's to 1960's, also the break away from painting traditional things like, wealthy, history, war and famous battles.

DRaW, Appropiation

Is it appropriate to say, non Maori can have a taamoko, I think it is at some point, like if you would to have kids, an they are part Maori, I think you could wear a taamoko to represents your kids. But having a taamoko, it comes with history, because being a Maori you need to know where your from, so the artist knows what to draw. I remember this old fella telling my mum, that this young guy came to him asking if he could get a taamoko from him, and he asked him, ok where are you from, and he said, I dont no, so he told no I would not give you a taamoko, because he told him to go home and find out where your from. Then he would give him a taamoko. I also think non Maori should not have a taamoko, because they are not Maori and they are not from here, and theirs no point asking that non Maori where they are from, because the taamoko represents where the Maori's are from in New Zealand. But non Maori people have Maori patterns and it would mean something to them, but they can not say they have taamoko.