Anthropomorphosis

I was just wondering, on the exhibition TOUCH , which will be displaying the objects made by this students, will it be interesting enough for the audience to touch objects which are only made last week,by art students in a relatively short time, and look like objects which can be bought in any random souvenir shop ?

I believe the important thing here is, that we can create a narrative;Most of the objects are made of rich African soil, I travelled thousands of miles to do the Touch Project, the students will be there. The story of the Michelangelo students and my own narrative will become interwoven, and therefore one.

I will need to gather some background information from the students for the exhibition in Belfast :

With their intriguing African names, their lives in the villages, their expectations of the future, and their family narrative, it will become a truly interesting exhibition !) How then becomes a material inviting enough for the artist? Sennet, has some thoughts on what makes an object interesting, not only for the viewer, but also , and especially for the maker:'All his or her efforts to do good quality work depend on curiosity of the material in hand. 'He then goes on to say that: 'we become particularly interested in the things we can change.' He calls the three issues : Metamorphoses, presence and anthropomorphosis .

Metamorphosis :this can be direct as a change of procedures, as when potters switch from moulding clay on a fixed platter to building it up on a rotating wheel.

Presence can be registered simply by leaving a maker's mark, such as a brick maker’s stamp .

Anthropomorphosis : occurs when we impute human qualities to a raw material;supposedly primitive cultures imagine that spirits dwell in a tree, and so in a spear from it's wood ;sophisticates personalize materials when using words like 'sympathetic' , or modest to describe finishing details on a cabinet. (Sennet, R. , 2008, p. 120 )