In our first week of “Real World Media”, we expanded our mind with creativity and getting out of our comfort zone. One thing that stands out the most for me is shaping out shapes with origami papers and the reading of “The textility of making by Tim Ingold” that can be contradicting but also opens up the way of how I view real world’s matter.
Through a piece of paper, we learned how to shape out our creativity and making something out of it. Through a piece of paper, an ordinary origami turns into shapes of sumo wrestler or an envelope according to your choice of preference. Through the reading of “The textility of making by Tim Ingold”, Klee stated “Form is the end, death’, he wrote. ‘Form-giving is life” Klee (1973, Ingold Tim, 2010). At first, when I saw the origami paper, I see no art in it just an ordinary colorful paper. Nonetheless, after taking some creativity out and being attentive, the form which is the origami paper turns into an art that has values, meaning and turning it to “life”. In order to produce origami papers to come out to “life” it needs “matter” and “form” which then combine result in arts. Turning “form” and “matter” into “life” can be applied in all the thing you see in your daily life, which sums up the beauty of it. Composing things to be finally “visible” to the eyes of human (Ingold Tim, p.1-2).
Thus, anything you see is once a form or what Klee stated as “death” but with the power of human hands and mind changing form and matter to be “visible” and have “life”. This is how incredible “form” and “matter” is to the real-life world.
Reference List
Ingold, T (2010), ‘The Textility of Making‘, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 34: 91-102, accessed 2/03/2023
http://sed.ucsd.edu/files/2014/05/Ingold-2009-Textility-of-making.pdf