SOUL MAKING

SOUL, SOUND, STRUCTURE

What is soul making

► An alternative venue for knowing ones self and looking into the depths and
essence with what we are doing in our everyday life
► A reflection on our artistic sense and in determining our artistic self
► Done in bringing back the visualization or imagination
► The profound intention of soul making is centered on the idea to be empty along
the way and find peace in a certain moment and to be able to discern essence and
relevance within or in the margins or art making (Narciso, 2016).
How does it work?

► In arts, in order for people to make sense of the work, it would require
understanding the visual elements where art was grounded on, especially the
principles of design.
Common soul making images that one can
produce
► Personal story – essays, reflections (caricature)
► Poetry – poetic musings of the heart
► Metaphors – a story created to translate natures stature into human consciousness
(poetry pieces)
► Drawing/sketching/caricature/painting
► Speaking/talking/inspirational messages
► Space studies – this is on how space matters and how artist utilized it
► Photography /photography studies – a technique crafted to draw our own stories
through vibrant and even moving images
APPROPRIATION

► refers to the act of borrowing or reusing existing elements within a new work.
► the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to
them
► In the visual arts, to appropriate means to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or
sample aspects (or the entire form) of human-made visual culture.
► Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup, 1968
Jeff Koons, Rogers V. Koons
Koons has been sued a number of times; on
this occasion, the artist was sued after he
appropriated a photograph taken by Art
Rogers of two people holding a bunch of
puppies. Although Koons made a sculpture
from the photo, changing the colours of the
puppies (to bright blue) and altering a few
other elements, the court rejected his parody
defence, and it remains one of the most
noteworthy cases involving modern art today.
Damien Hirst, Emms V. Hirst
Hirst was sued for breach of copyright over his
sculpture Hymm in 2000. The subject was a
‘Young Scientist Anatomy Set’ belonging to
his son Connor, 10,000 of which are sold a
year by Hull (Emms) Toy Manufacturer. Hirst
created a 20-foot, six ton enlargement of the
Science Set figure, radically changing the
perception of the object. The artist paid an
undisclosed sum to two charities, Children
Nationwide and the Toy Trust in an out-of-
court settlement.