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Death is the other side of the coin of life. Artist often use humor to pay homage to love ones who passed by creating paper cut outs (papel picado) to help relatives and friends deal with the pain of loss. The use of negative and positive space to create an illusion also reinforces the notion that our views and life and death are two also negative and positive space that work together to create the illusion of self.
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Death is the other side of the coin of life. Artist often use humor to pay homage to love ones who passed by creating paper cut outs (papel picado) to help relatives and friends deal with the pain of loss. The use of negative and positive space to create an illusion also reinforces the notion that our views and life and death are two also negative and positive space that work together to create the illusion of self. We propose to create an interactive exhibit for members of the Virtual Tech to engage SL users individually and collaboratively to create works based on the Mexican tradition of Papel Picado: The Art of Mexican Cut Paper. The idea is to allow users to cut individual pieces of "virtual tissue paper", to unfold the paper and string their individual cuts together collaboratively to create beautiful and meaningful banners for Second Life Celebrations.
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Paper Cuts team roster
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| Kirrineth Dragonash |
| Valerie Market |
| j3rry Paine |
Papel picado is beautiful!
I find your idea very exquisit. Let me share with you some ideas in order to help you add content. By the way I am mexican.
1. The celebration of death in our culture is fascinating. He mock death, we make riddles and poems related to the death that is coming after you and taking you to the other world. The Dia de Muertos, is a mixed festivity, with the tradition of the ancient 3prehispanic cultures and the addition of the Christian Evangelization. The acient mexicans, made offerings to the death in order to help them walk to the other world, the infra-world. Putting in the ofrenda, the food they loved, some guilty pleasures like cigarettes or dessert. Three elements in a simbolic way were very important: wind, earth and fire, papel picado, fruit and candles, respectively. The addition from Christianity, a cross and the believe of going to heaven.
2. We mock about death in other ways different from the papel picado: sugar skulls with our names on it, short rhymes or poems related to the death called La pelona (skinhead, bald, hairless), using drawings of the death to make a caricature about somebody or something mainly politics. Diego Rivera paint it holding his hand in a mural, Diego is young about 10 years old. The Catrina or the fancy death is seductive and elegant, somebody that is like a role model, somebody we would like to be alike.
3. Definitely papel picado is used to celebrate, and it is beautiful, we use it in Independence day, Christmas, traditional parties, and of course in the Dia de Muertos. The papel picado is one cut. Is a kind of machine, you arrange the figures like the types on Gutemberg's printing press.
Which way are you going to take? Death and its fun part? Art and papel picado? Papel picado and death?
Hope this is useful,
Best regards,
Ampa