Virgil Morrison-Materialistic idea

For my Materialistic Ideas, I want to focus on the idea of multiples and possibly using lights to amplify shadows. I really want to revisit a piece from a long time ago. It was basically a roman/Greek popup book. I cut out almost every picture in the book and made it feel like it was coming alive. I want to take this idea and make it larger and fill it will a considerable amount of insects, coming out of one central spot, whether that be from a book or a crevasse. I want my viewers to feel overwhelmed because of the fact that for every 1 human on earth there are 200 million insects That's the equivalent of 400 lbs. of insects per acer of land. I want my insects to be very flat and not very detailed in the since that all my cut outs feel like shadows, but once the viewer approaches them, they can see that they are all separate entities. I would also like to incorporate sound, as well as some sweet or putrid smells that would attract certain kinds of insects. If I were to incorporate these smells, I would use flowers and carnivorous plants such as the Venus fly trap or Corpse flowers.

The inspiration of this idea comes from Carlos Amorales’s piece Black Cloud which has been continuously growing since 2007. It started at 30,000 then grew to 45,000 black paper moths in 2009. I think its effective how he chooses these very white pristine spaces to install his moths on. It really makes each moth stand out and the simplicity and lack of detail on the wings is interesting because it relies so much on form to portray what is being seen.

Black Cloud 2009

Carlos Amorales

 He was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1970 and received his education in the two different academes in the Netherlands.  He was trained as a painter but then realized he didn’t have much interest in painting. He now explores varies types of media from painting to digital to performance art. He gets a lot of his influence from his heritage and has “changed his name to Amorales meaning ‘without morals’. He did this because it portrays his work and makes him stand out from his father who was a pioneer of conceptual art work in Mexico” (Freize). Many of his piece and ideas come from explaining language through different means of art work. Other pieces of his are Life in the Folds 2017, La Langue des Morts(Language of the Dead) 2012, and Amorales vs Amorales 1997.