Monday 30 April 2007

Floating Root

The war still there,
When it could be finished?
I don’t care about what is art?
I hope art has to do something useful for the humanity!
Look!
The refugee are exiled all over the world,
Looking for abrit, protections, safety, survive….
Wherever they stay, it’ll not be the same.
They have to transfer into the other culture
“Living in Rome like Romans”.
But who can forget his own homeland?
It likes a floating root searching its own land.
And for this piece of land,
The war never ending,
When is the peace?



Who am I? It’s not an important question, the important thing is I understand that when you leave your homeland, you cry speechlessly.是種無語問蒼天的悽愴 And you wonder when you can go home, but sometimes there is no answer!( you can not answer it!)
I put all my thinking into art works and leave in this blog. If you want let something here, just leave it. S’il vous plait! Prego!

I’m living abroad from more than a decade; it’s my nature and destiny to be like an outsider. If you live far from home despite of distance; it’s always difficult to get used to it. I don’t know how to comfort you, but maybe there is something you want to tell or leave it, here! Qui! Ici! 這裡!

With your help, I want to make a work of art, called “Cutting into pieces”.

To express that nobody and no country is complete, perfect, whole,intero,entire,完整的!
This work will be made of pieces of painting, collage, sculpture, video, installation and text in multiple languages.

For start it, I would like you having a tomato’s plant, enjoying, observing its growing and taking it with your journey.
Then tell us your adventures, bad, sad, boring, exciting…
It’s not necessary to use your real name; this is a space for sharing what you want to share.
Our space http://chaomi-floatingroot.blogspot.com/
My email chaomi.ko@gmail.com

3 comments:

Sera said...

Bonjour, Hola, Gutentag and Hello!

I think it's really lovely how most people in our class now have a little tomato plant. It's brightened up the place!

I always admire people who live a long way away from home.
I know I spent a little while abroad and its the most home sick I've ever been and probably a bit lonely. I didn't know that it would feel like it did. When I returned home it was strange still as everything had seemed to change so much, even the music that people were listening to.

I was reading an article in 'Metsu' or something, the uni magazine. It was from a student who said that they found going home even on half terms really strange and how distanced they felt from people they had known for years. From what I gather quite a few poeple feel like this and I don't think you have to be away from home. Cities are quite strange places anyway, but on every road you can tell there is someone that looks as though they feel like they are on the outside of something.

The art piece you want to make sounds really interesting and I agree that differnet personalities and fragments within a town, city, habitual space create displacements. But I also think, the way things tick are a consequence of everyone's unique personality, and that creates the unity of a community no matter how flaky it may appear.?

Maybe, - just a passing opinion and a bit of a rant.

chaomious said...

Ciao bella,
Thank you very much for your comment, I think you are right about how the people feel to live in cities. It can be really lonley and sad.I hope the people could use this space to talk each other, even though a tomato is little, it's a little hope.
ChaoMi

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