Triangle

How doe triangle communicates impermanence ? It suppose to be the most stable shape, but since I'm hanging it off the ground, the gravity becomes the permanent and everything else would risk falling!
I find beauty in the impermanence: Age, petals falling from the sky, water, dancing. I can't really duplicate nature, but it has its way to use same materials over and over again yet still be able to be unique in its nature's making. The triangular metal plates that I hung off the square net looks like a flock of bird, but it also looked like the shape of a fish. Swimming, flying, how free is that! but yet its tied to a string!
The installation goes from dense to less dense, leading the eyes to move around , and navigating the three-colored yarn with the metal plates that is hung off it.
I have a vision of Brenda's , the chair of department, who's a sculptor's work I saw over summer in the AVA gallery. I like to see how sculpture could work without heavy wood making, but simple strings and metal. Turns out that there are also lots to consider. the straightness of the triangle, the tensity of the string. How the knots are seen , or invisible, or just messy.
Argh, I am challenged but inspired and happy to constantly learning new things.

p.s. forgive this jibberish writing, I swear i will make sense of this later.

My Senior Show Concert !

Press Release from Hopkins Center Website:

HANOVER, NH—Dartmouth’s and the Northfield Mount Hermon School’s percussion ensembles join forces on Saturday, February 18, for Long Live Spirit and Inspiration: East Asian Music and Rhythms. The concert that celebrates the music of East Asia—and the contributions of two student members of the Dartmouth ensemble.

Under the direction of Hafiz Shabazz, the concert celebrates Dartmouth seniors Christina Chen and Si Jie Loo, both of whom made the college’s World Music Percussion Ensemble their musical home during their time at the college.

Chen, an Economics and History double major who plans to go into journalism after graduating, came to the ensemble with 14 years of training in classical piano and wanted to experience music that was less rigid and more interpretive. Shabazz’s performance during Chen’s freshman orientation pointed her to the percussion ensemble, which became like a second family, as well as a creative outlet. She will play percussion and piano in the concert.

Si Jie Loo, a studio art major from an ethnically Chinese family in Malaysia, studied Chinese drums during high school and transitioned to West African djembe after joining the percussion ensemble her freshman year. She’s played a key support role in the ensemble, organizing performances, recruiting new members; and she’s also led the ensemble into Asian music, selecting repertoire and teaching the music. For this performance, her sister, Si Xuan Loo, who graduated from St. Lawrence College and now lives in Boston, joins the ensemble on erhu, a Chinese violin.

Also joining the Dartmouth group are student musicians from Northfield Mount Hermon School in Gill, MA, bringing traditional Korean samul nori percussion instruments. Student Director Eunjung (Katie) Chang was an award-winning musician in her native Korean.

The Chinese music the concert will sample dates back millennia but many of its modern forms sprang up after the Opium Wars of the mid-nineteenth century, including new genres of narrative singing and Cantonese music that fused the local traditional music with Western jazz elements. The Korean music comes from a 5,000-year-old tradition, especially the reign of King Sejong in the 15th century when the Korean alphabet was created and an advanced form of musical notation developed. The lively folk traditions of nongak farmer’s music, samul nori drumming and ritual shamanistic music go back to agricultural and religious festivities described in the Chinese annals.

The World Music Percussion Ensemble specializes in non-western drumming styles and techniques, from ancient African rhythms to rock, rap, hip-hop, Afro-pop, Salsa, Brazilian Sambas and world jazz. Shabazz is a master drummer and ethnomusicologist, percussionist, performer, and lecturer in Dartmouth’s Music Department who has toured as a professional musician throughout France, the Caribbean and North America, and has taught at the University of California at Berkeley and Duke University, and has lectured in more than 500 schools and universities.