'Kandinsky's Drawers'
Each drawer in this chest represents a collection; of parts, compositions and experiences. My thesis supports the 'Gestalt' view of experience, where the whole is more than the sum of the parts, and this showcase installation asks questions of composition (perhaps being the stage between part and whole).
Kandinsky painted his 'Compositions' over 30 years, cataloging his artistic ideals into 10 paintings over a period of filtration and distillation. If his paintings can be read as musical compositions then there maybe parallels between all artistic endevours, where composition leads to a state of completeness. From painting, to symphonies, to architecture: can the composition of a space be the revealing quality that connects the parts into a 'whole'? Or is the idea of 'Gestalt' a meta-physical ideal that cannot be explained in terms of physical tectonics.
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