Yeshe Parks
2007 Biennial Talk
Run Time: 5:35
Ever since I was a child I found myself drawn to the minute details of the world. I guess it was a form of escape; I began to see myself as an almost microscopic entity, traveling through the world in a large and foreign body. Dumpsters were skyscrapers and skyscrapers were speed bumps for satellites. I was adept at shifting perspectives, from the miniature to the large. It helped strengthen a deep appreciation for my surroundings on all levels. Although at the time I knew nearly nothing about the layers of atomic motion, I envisioned a world that was infinitely smaller than I could see, and one that was larger than I could imagine. As I began inspecting the social and cultural fabrics, a relationship between scale, metaphorical object, and myself began to emerge.
That is why I choose to rescale and re-contextualize objects and people; it feels only natural, as a means for me to better understand the vast and minute architecture of our world.