Hop-Scotching the Hopscotch

Hop-scotching my hopscotch installation filmed by Johannes Obers.
Overall view here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05IProUIUOg

Year assignment for my last year secondary school in arts; our task was to create an original art piece which had it's roots in a particular artist. I had chosen the conceptual artist Christian Boltanski. It brought me to this installation.

I found the concept around the hopscotch game in an ancient form of the game, this old one had the numbers in one straight row, in which number one was rather the word 'earth' then one, and ten the word 'heaven', giving me the hopscotch game as symbol for life; one's road in life, which, as a game can turn out good or bad, has its unknown turns and insecurities. Life is only this hopscotch game we play everyday, what happens before or after it is unknown to us. Especially what is when we stop playing, a subject that comes to mind allot, but to a certain extent; for if you look to much into a light you'll get a headache. It is this last sentence what the light in the box symbolises; the light at the end of the tunnel, one of the many stories of the afterlife. Yet stories, nothing more...

The sound that echoes through the hall is that of people playing hopscotch.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Godzoro
• school assignment
• SKI
• hopscotch
• Installation
• Christian Boltanski
• Art