Why look into Ancient monument re-makes in foreign countries?
I wanted to explore the Ancient monument lookalikes because I am interested in the concept of bringing back ancient monument replicas to look like almost the real thing. Its like someone goes abroad and like the very nice monuments, some people wish they could take them back to england for their own garden or tourist place.
In the old days when people visited ancient places like Greece or Rome, the rich people wanted to make their own replicas of ancient looking stone pillars and statues for their gardens. Some statues would be deliberately broken to make them look more real and having foreign monuments on English land would be like reliving a moment in time in which they have experienced.
How does this research relate to my Chinese roof?
Looking at this research has given me a better insight to what my work is really about because I also wanted to take back apart of China by attempting to make a skeletal construction of a Chinese roof. By leaving my Chinese roof in a skeletal structure form would make it a memory trace of the place that I visited and would become a roof that is not fully completed as in not fully fragmented.
Memory traces fragment together in someone’s mind but cannot always see the complete picture and I basically wanted to make the Chinese roof in this kind of form. Its a trace of what I have seen in china and I wanted to take that memory trace back with me to England and display it on one side of a dark room with the English roof displayed on the otherside .
This will be part of my degree show and using the Chinese roof will hopefully show the connection with English culture and this will be mostly to what my degree show is about. Will keep you updated of my degree show process.
