Working title:
The proximity of people and eggs through Egg theory of Evolution
An exploration of your own family with Ceres, eggs and chickens
Aims and objectives
Overall aims
Research ideas about the uses of eggs, fantasy/reality, history, philosophy, screen studies, cultural theory, film, literature, internet culture.
The egg, an ordinary but mysterious object, seems every day, but there is something special about the egg structure that makes it an excellent thing to explore.
Present a new concept of the relationship between egg and chicken; and mother and daughter.
The structure of the egg is used to express my family relationships.
Contextualize The project begins with the historical and theoretical background of the egg, including evolutionary history, scientific research, philosophy and art history. For example, I was questioning whether the value of the egg is underestimated. Next, find the connections between consciousness, art, technology and spirituality.
Explore what the egg and the family have in common.
Investigate Experiment with how different substances should be used, train yourself to challenge other materials, explore and use technology to experiment in unpredictable ways. Seek breakthroughs and advances while maintaining their own personal and coherent style.
Experimentation Experiment with the coordination of 3D work with 2D photographs in multimedia work and determine the strength and nature. Learn to use photography and printing to enhance the communication of your artwork. Experiment with different materials to experiment with the results brought about by different materials.
Development Develop proficiency in Adobe tools such as Photoshop, ai, etc. Try more experiments with youtube tutorials to increase crafting skills and understand the uses and usage of different matters.
Exploration The work is, in part, an exploration of my relationship with my family, and I hope that this work will reflect my innermost feelings and a visualization of what I feel in my heart.
Create A set of three-dimensional handcrafted works (print?)(any 3D work) and photographs that fully reflect the issues investigated during this MA project and show pure perseverance in direction and technique, resulting in a unique visualization system.
Background
History I have introduced the historical background of the egg in the following four directions: evolutionary history, scientific research, philosophy, Myths and Legends and art history.
There are still some age-old questions that continue to haunt us. For example, how did the universe begin? How did life begin? How did humanity come into being? Who am I, where did I come from, and where am I going? Why can one substance know, use and transform another meaning? And whether there was a chicken or an egg first.
⊹Scientific research⊹： ⊹Evolutionary history⊹
According to Darwin's theory of Evolution, Evolution must have heritable variation, and in the case of multicellular organisms, only the reproductive cells are passed on from generation to generation. For example, cells in the beak or wings of a chicken do not pass on to the next generation, even if they produce mutations. Only mutations in egg and sperm cells can be passed on to the next generation.
Evolution is inseparable from natural selection, and with natural selection comes elimination. If we look at Darwinian Evolution, there should be an animal that at some point has all the elements of a chicken, all the characteristics of a chicken, and then it lays an egg, and it can be called an egg. Did the egg become an egg first, or did the chicken become a chicken first? Some scholars have pointed out that dinosaurs passively evolved various forms of offspring, including chickens, through genetic mutation and reproduction from one generation to the next. Eventually, chickens survived through elimination and continued Evolution from one generation to the next. Of course, the chicken is not the final evolutionary outcome. Nature is still eliminating the weak, and Evolution is still ongoing. For example, suppose the chicken becomes unsuitable for its environment and is destroyed, but other subspecies survive because of a new trait. In that case, this new trait is again a new product of Evolution.
⊹Philosophy⊹
The best known would still be the related account of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BC), who said, "There could not be a first egg that produced a bird, for then there would have to be a bird that could first lay the first egg."
In Aristotle's account, although it does not say anything about chickens, given that birds (and of course chickens) lay eggs, and that all birds have eggs that hatch, Aristotle means to express the same logical conundrum - the problem of whether there was a chicken or an egg first - which also represents what mainly was a human quandary, a quandary that at once puzzled people for thousands of years: birds are hatched from eggs, and eggs are laid by birds; without eggs, there would be no birds, and without birds then eggs could not be applied.
But in the end, it was not clear whether the existing bird (chicken) or the egg came first.
Apart from whether the egg came first or chicken, there are many philosophical theories about chickens, including the following.
1. If an egg breaks itself, it can only be an egg that hatches itself, hatching a new life - a chick - inside the eggshell. The chick grows inside the eggshell, and when it develops to a certain level, the chick will peck through the eggshell, break out of the shell and break its original self - the egg.
If you don't want external forces to break you, then, like the egg, keep building up your inner strength to break yourself, breakthrough yourself, transcend yourself, achieve rebirth, and gain new life and hope.
2. When an egg is placed in the palm of your hand and you hold it hard, no matter how hard you try, it will not break in your hand.
Usually, the human can break an egg with a simple knock, but why can't I break the egg in my hand even though I am trying to grip it with all my strength?
When you knock an egg, you focus on one point of the egg, which seems to be a small amount of force, but once the target is focused, the force on the egg is greater.
It seems that many obstacles do not come from the challenges themselves but from the wrong way we break through them.
(Elizabeth Snoke Harris and Jeff Albrecht Studios, 2017, p.212)
⊹ Myths and Legends ⊹
According to Buddhist theory, the world has neither a beginning nor an end, which is true of life. Just as it is written in the Dictionary of Buddhist Light, "All worlds such as sentient beings and dharma have no beginning." This means that everything has cause and effect and that the causal relationship between things forms a chain in which all items in this world have no beginning and no end. Then the chicken and the egg, which are related by cause and effect, will always exist, and there is no always, and naturally, there is no succession. In this way, whether the chicken or the egg came first does not require a solution in Buddhism.
So what does Christianity say about the question of whether the chicken or the egg comes first?
Unlike Buddhism, if you have read the whole of the Old and New Testaments, you will know that God created everything in the world within a week, so everything in the world had a beginning. For example, in the Bible, in the chapter of Genesis, it says, "And God said, Let the waters bring forth many living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth and in the sky: and God made great fish, and every living creature that growth in the waters, every kind after its kind; and every kind of fowl, every kind after its kind. And God saw that it was good." Here, God has only made birds (and presumably chickens), not eggs, and according to the logic of birds laying eggs, it was God who first made the bird (chicken), and then the bird (chicken) laid the egg; it was not the egg that came first and then the bird (chicken) hatched from the egg. In this way, according to the Christian theory, it was the bird (chicken) that came first and then the bird's egg (egg).
⊹Art history⊹
Eggs are an essential part of art history.
Eggs stay fresh in the fridge for three weeks. But mix it with paint and paint it on a wooden board and it will keep for 2000 years. You may find the answer to why it has such longevity in the kitchen. "Think of the egg yolks you have left on your breakfast plate - if you don't wash them in time, they're hard to get off the plate." So says Dianne Modestini, a professor at New York University's School of Fine Arts. Professor Modestini was also involved in the restoration of Leonardo da Vinci's newly discovered masterpiece, The Saviour. (Chernick, 2018)
The egg has been around for a long time in the history of art, although who brought it into the history of art we have no way of knowing. Some say it was the Egyptians, because mummy portraits from the first few centuries AD contain egg components; others say it was the Greco-Romans, because the earliest surviving use of it appears in the texts of the ancient Romans Vitruvius and Pliny.
Whoever first used the egg outside the kitchen soon appeared in the studios of major artists. Egg tempera (also known as 'Tempera'), a type of painting using egg yolks and pigments, was very popular in the early Italian Renaissance, and most of the works by the artists Fra Angelico, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Andrea del Most of Verrocchio's works are tempera paintings.(Altoon Sultan, 1999)
The 15th-century artist Cennino Cennini was a pupil of the famous early Renaissance artist Giotto's pupils. The earliest description of a recipe for tempera painting appears in his manual of techniques, The Book of Il Libro dell'Arte. Cennini writes: "You must mix the pigment with the egg yolk and keep the same amount of yolk as the pigment." (Cannino Camnini, 1936)
A few hundred years later, egg whites also entered the art scene, and in the 19th century, the process of albumen photographic print appeared. Photo paper would be coated with a mixture of egg white and salt. Art Kaplan, a photographic conservation scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute, says: "At that time, everything about photography relied on 'kitchen chemistry' - that's when people did all kinds of things at home. -that's when people collided with inspiration from various experiments at home."
In 1850, the French photographer Louis Desire Blanquart Evrard published a book, "La photographie", on the process of protein printing. Since then, it has been the most common method of making photographs in the 19th century. From Gustave Le Gray to Roger Fenton to Félix Nadar, all were beneficiaries of this process.(Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard and Désiré, 1979)
Contemporary
Eggs are eaten in different ways in different countries, and the food represents the culinary culture of different countries. For example, in Haruki Murakami's speech on receiving the Jerusalem Prize for Literature 2009, the egg is likened to a struggler.
In the book "The Triumph of the Egg", the egg represents fear. "The Triumph of Egg and Other Stories."
Theory -
This study will focus on the egg's scientific and philosophical theory, using the egg as a metaphor for oneself and the hen as a mother to reveal the similarities between the chicken and the mother egg.
Methodology: The research will be based
on a literature search, internet research, online questionnaires, interviews and exhibition visits.
Literature search, internet research: the direction of the literature research will be to examine the discussion of egg-related content, some artworks on eggs, the similarities between the mother-daughter relationship and the relationship between eggs and chickens.
Exhibition Visit. The exhibition visit will be to a companion exhibition in London.
Throughout the practice, I intend to use the blog site to reflect on the techniques and difficulties of each Experiment.
Methods of completing the work, using school resources to complete the work; including the 3D workshop and print studio.
Outcome
As a result of this project, I wanted a piece that would make people feel clean and relieved when they saw it. These works will be a legacy and present a new concept of the relationship between egg and mother and daughter. They will consist of several smaller sculptural pieces, then be documented photographically.
(Elizabeth Snoke Harris and Jeff Albrecht Studios, 2017, p.212)
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