L’attitude 33º
This project was born through the experience of two foreign artists living together in Italy attending a technical glass school. Through sharing memories and situations in their home countries, they discovered similarities and differences of each of their realities, and their perceptions of the world today.
Rebecca Townsend, b. 1978 in Cape Town, South Africa,
This project was born through the experience of two foreign artists living together in Italy attending a technical glass school. Through sharing memories and situations in their home countries, they discovered similarities and differences of each of their realities, and their perceptions of the world today.
Rebecca Townsend, b. 1978 in Cape Town, South Africa,
Latitude 33º, Longitude 18º.
Alejamdra De Solminihac, b. 1975 in Santiago, Chile,
Alejamdra De Solminihac, b. 1975 in Santiago, Chile,
Lattitude 33º, Longitude 72º.
From two developing countries with breathtaking nature, surrounded by sea and mountains. Famous for their rich natural resources and good wines: sparsely populated rural areas and densely populated cities.
In the past indigenous people lived from the riches of the land without pretensions of ownership; there was enough to go round.
Their lives were ruled by the earth’s rhythms and their cosmic vision.
Later they were ruled by colonialists.
Later still, others dictated, and the people were not left to co-exist with the land in freedom and peace.
Now, seemingly democratic, still things aren’t quite right.
Politics and economics rules the ways things are. Investing in education and health would be better. Education to look after and protect the earth, from which springs health.
The earth is not a big black bag, to throw at it and take from it as we please.
Our riches have, and still are, there for the taking, but with respect for the earth’s rhythms.
The artwork comprises of rectangular shapes cut from black plastic rubbish bags, to indicate the lines of latitude and longitude that form a selected part of the Southern Hemisphere on which are placed transparent fused glass gems to represent the shapes of Southern Africa and South America.
The plastic rectangles are attached to the floor. The glass gems are purposefully not stuck down, if someone chooses to take one, so be it.
From two developing countries with breathtaking nature, surrounded by sea and mountains. Famous for their rich natural resources and good wines: sparsely populated rural areas and densely populated cities.
In the past indigenous people lived from the riches of the land without pretensions of ownership; there was enough to go round.
Their lives were ruled by the earth’s rhythms and their cosmic vision.
Later they were ruled by colonialists.
Later still, others dictated, and the people were not left to co-exist with the land in freedom and peace.
Now, seemingly democratic, still things aren’t quite right.
Politics and economics rules the ways things are. Investing in education and health would be better. Education to look after and protect the earth, from which springs health.
The earth is not a big black bag, to throw at it and take from it as we please.
Our riches have, and still are, there for the taking, but with respect for the earth’s rhythms.
The artwork comprises of rectangular shapes cut from black plastic rubbish bags, to indicate the lines of latitude and longitude that form a selected part of the Southern Hemisphere on which are placed transparent fused glass gems to represent the shapes of Southern Africa and South America.
The plastic rectangles are attached to the floor. The glass gems are purposefully not stuck down, if someone chooses to take one, so be it.
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