HOLY JUNK: December 2017

HOLY JUNK: December 2017: HOLY JUNK and LOUISE BOURGEOIS   My busy and not an easy year of 2017 comes to an end and it is about time to write again. Many HOLY JUNK workshops on ...

December 2017

BLOG 2 - Finally.

My busy and not an easy year of 2017 comes to an end and it is about time to write again. Many HOLY JUNK workshops on conferences, in training programs on different parts of the world and in my art therapy studio, have proven that the HOLY JUNK is actually never disappointing. 

The deep meaning of found objects is demonstrated in many artworks, like for example just now in the moving exhibition of Louise Bourgeois called TWOSOME at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art,   07.09.2017 - 17.02.2018. 

 The Confessional 2001 (picture in the catalog)

Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) was one of the most brilliant and influential 20th-century artists. Here will add  a citation out of chapter 4 in my book: 

The artist Louise Bourgeois experienced a sense of abandonment throughout her life, according to her longtime assistant and friend Jerry Gorovoy. In Wroes’s article called “At home with Louise Bourgeois”, he writes, “Maybe that’s why she has developed a special attachment to objects. In many of her works she used raw materials which had personal meaning, even before the work was created”. 

“When I was growing up,” Bourgeois said, “all the women in my house used needles (Her parents had a tapestry repair workshop). I have always had a fascination with the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair the damage. It’s a claim to forgiveness” (Darwent, 2010, June 2). Bourgeois saw a direct link to clothes as a kind of a personal diary. They shed light on the places in which they were worn, the people she met and the events that happened. Personal memory was a very important part of her work and those were things that came into direct contact with the body. Some of them still smelled of her perfume. In her mind, her clothes were a loaded material because she wanted to create sculptures that would remain behind from the raw material (Wroe, ibid.)