"All you need is love." According to
The Beatles, our lives are complete the moment we have obtained the highest
point of a relationship-- love. But according to the Book of Mormon prophet
Lehi, "it must needs be, that there is opposition in all things." How
could we ever have love if we never had its petulant arch nemesis, hate? By
exploring the contrast of these two opposing principles, we can find ourselves
feeling the love, or burning with hate.
In class we explored some
different pieces of media to really exploit these contrasting characteristics.
One piece we explored in class was DJ Spooky's "Rhythm Science." In
his piece he took a group of random words and had them correlate in a not so
linear way. He took different words, such as "Cool, Theater, The Idiot,
and Vector," and put them all in the same space. By definition, none of
these words really have any correlation with each other. The difference in this
piece is that although they are not similar in definition, they are all linked
by their occupation of space. They have all been placed together to convey a
meaning. The meaning that came to us was pure confusion. In the Webspinna
battle, we took a vast variety of media that came from all different sources,
and put them in one place to cause some confusion. Is it a song of love? Or a
song of hate? The contrasting elements come through and disorient any idea of a
linear narrative.
One example of these
contrasting and disorienting pieces happened in the middle of our battle.
"Close Your Eyes," a soft sultry ballad sung by the heartthrob
Michael Buble was thrown to the wall by the harsh vocals from the band Three
Days Grace in the song "I Hate Everything About You." While you were
beginning to orient yourself in the milky twilights, you were quickly pulled in
a different direction completely.
Another source of media that
conveys this confusion is the piece Marie-Thérèse au béret rouge et au col
de fourrure by Pablo Picasso. When you first begin to view the piece,
you can see the expression is one of complacency, but as you continue to stare
that idea is moved around and morphed into the chaos Picasso is so famous for.
It's even hard to tell what emotion the person is trying to portray. At an initial
glance you may see it as something mundane, but as your eyes shift you see
traces of sorrow. It is just as the battle we held-- should you feel happy or
sad?
In
our battle we wanted to explore different perspectives of love and hate. We
brought in scenes from The Notebook, Moulin Rouge, and Titanic to show people
expressing their love in different ways. Then we contrasted that with break-up
scenes from the same movies. When romantic love is torn because of
mis-communication or offense hate surfaces. The song, “Close your Eyes” shows
the romantic magic of love and “Love Me Do” shows the fun, happy, dancy side of
love. Taylor Swift explores immature teenage love while LOVE from Frank Sinatra
sings the classic, mature love. And most of the hate songs reveal broken
hearts. We wanted to visually represent these songs through our dress. Love is
more pure so Chad wore white with a full heart on his chest. Hate is darker, so
Hunter wore black with a broken heart on his chest. Most hate starts with
broken hearts. Everyone needs to be loved, if someone is not, hate can develop.
The battle of Love vs. Hate
is legendary and will never cease to occur. While we make our way through our
lives we'll find ourselves flip flopping between the two as we attempt to
orient ourselves to the proper side. Until then we will continue to be at war.
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