Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Lunch Break (Massy)

The artwork below is named "Lunch Break". There is a belt on the wall, and under the belt can we see some empty sardine cans, connected to the belt by wires. Each can has a picture of typical Victorian style houses and of men, women, families.
The first impression I felt of this art was "relaxing". The belt on the wall expresses the situation that the man wearing the belt undo the belt of after he finished his work. The picture on the sardine cans shows he has a life with his lovely families, and he probably would feel comfortable after he finished his work and back to his home. Cans are symbols of human life. Sardine cans are sardine cans for a long time, their shapes and usages have not changed until now. So the rusty sardine cans express the fact that human being have lived until now by working(he was working in cannery, maybe) and eating, from long long time ago.
These are just my impression, so there can be other interpretation of this art. But there is one clear fact. The man wearing this belt must have been fat! Because we can estimate his waist by seeing the length of the belt and the location of a hole he used.


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