Project 3

Our group's name is called"J&C", which means our majors are Jewellery and Ceramics. We come from different countries including Taiwan, Thailand, Japan and China. I am so proud of our teammates that everyone worked so hard. We all known we got the responsibility for the team. We often took a long time meet after class although everybody was tired, no one complained. In this process, we have learned how to be strong and brave.

During this project, I got the responsibility to do the research for our project. The topic is "identity", I got our inspiration from these two concepts below.

Firstly,“Identity”means people survey themselves, people want to know who I am. It’s a kind of self-inspect. Our object aims to find people’s “consciousness” in spirit level. The concept inspiration is from Jacques Lacan’s Mirror Image Theory.It is considered about the first time that people started to survey themselves as a infant is when they saw the mirror image of themselves. It’s the origin of human’s consciousness, called “mirror image stage”. (after that the Freud’s “Oedipus stage” was appeared).

Secondly, During the art history, there is a similar concept called “introspective art”. We adopted the inspiration of Modigliani, who is called the greatest Italian artist in 20th. Throughout his painting career the eyes in Modigliani’s portraits are “remarkable”, often he represents them as blank.People can use their eyes to see the whole world, but we can’t see ourselves totally (without a mirror). So the target that people in the painting wanted to survey is themselves, like the artist only talked to himself.

Through this project, the most important thing for me is that we have learned how to cooperate with others. We helped each other, learned a lot of things from my teammates. I really appreciate this experience.