{"id":622,"date":"2025-04-18T15:10:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T15:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/?p=622"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:25:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:25:52","slug":"copy-copy-copy-copy-copy-copy-copy-copy-copy-copy-copy-copy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/museum-capstone\/2025\/04\/18\/copy-copy-copy-copy-copy-copy-copy-copy-copy-copy-copy-copy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fascinated Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Fascinated soul has eyes of wonder. Someone obsessed or entranced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Explore the works below. Before expanding the text, think to yourself:
What do you see?<\/em>
What do you feel?<\/em>
What might it be addressing?<\/em>
What questions do you have?<\/em>
Do you like it? Why or why not?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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This is Blue<\/em> (2023) by Dabin Ahn. In Blue<\/em>, a young girl, doll-like in her appearance, stares down at a small, blue, rectangular screen. Our zoomed in view of her face reveals little about what she sees, but the image is recognizable for anyone today. One tear drop forms under her eye. What does she see on her phone? Are they messages? Is she talking with someone? Is the conversation going sour? If what she is looking at makes her sad, shouldn\u2019t she look away? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you feel about your phone? When you<\/strong> visit a museum, how much of that time is spent on your phone?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dabin Ahn (b. 1988) is a Korean painter and sculptor whose work derives from the imagery and aesthetics of porcelain. His painting technique is smooth\u2014so smooth that people are shocked by the lack of visible brush stroke. Much of his work examines the fragility of human emotions, investigating sadness and the ways in which we heal from it. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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This is Maria<\/em> (2014) by Rose B. Simpson. Maria<\/em> is a customized and modified 1985 Chevrolet El Camino. Much of Simpson\u2019s life has been spent in Espa\u00f1ola, New Mexico, the lowrider capital of the world. Simpson, like many residents of the area, developed a love and appreciation for these cars and the culture surrounding them\u2014she even briefly studied automative technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The outside has been painted in two tones of black\u2014matte and glossy\u2014referencing Maria Martinez\u2019s black on black pottery style (left). The patterns mimic the movement of the natural world: the flow of rivers and roll of mountains. At an angle, the glossy paint reflects the landscape surrounding it. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Rose B. Simpson (b. 1983) is a Tewa (Santa Clara Pueblo) sculptor who works primarily in ceramic. Her works often approach the past, present, and future as structured around the matrilineal line. She herself comes from a line of women ceramic artists. Her style is recognizable in the \u2018Slap-Slab\u2019 technique in which she assembles her pieces using small slips of clay, leaving the pieces and her own motions\u2014brushstrokes, fingerprints, markings\u2014evident and visible. Her figures are often post-apocalyptic, considering Native American survival in the wake of the climate emergency. 
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These are photos from the Lucky Tiger<\/em> series (2009) by Laurel Nakadate. Nakadate\u2019s Lucky Tiger <\/em>series plays with ideas of performance. Seemlingly a series of photos of Nakadate in skimpy clothes across the American-West, a deeper story is revealed in the black markings that cover each photo. After making the original photos, Nakadate met with random men from the internet and public spaces, have them cover their fingertips in fingerprinting ink, and then allow them to touch the photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notice where the markings are. Where do they touch? What do they cover?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Laurel Nakadate (b. 1975) is a Japanese-American photographer who often uses herself as a subject to investigate psychosexual identity and the relationship that forms between herself and strangers. Her work is often described as voyeuristic and \u2018disturbingly intimate\u2019.
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