{"id":30,"date":"2019-04-28T00:27:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T04:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2019-04-30T12:10:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T16:10:52","slug":"goldfish-in-a-glass-jar-crime-scene","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/goldfish-in-a-glass-jar-crime-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldfish In a Glass Jar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/543\/2019\/04\/IMG_1719.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3276\" height=\"2752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/543\/2019\/04\/IMG_1719.jpg 3276w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/543\/2019\/04\/IMG_1719-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/543\/2019\/04\/IMG_1719-768x645.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/543\/2019\/04\/IMG_1719-1024x860.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3276px) 100vw, 3276px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/543\/2019\/04\/IMG_1519.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3239\" height=\"2864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/543\/2019\/04\/IMG_1519.jpg 3239w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/543\/2019\/04\/IMG_1519-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/543\/2019\/04\/IMG_1519-768x679.jpg 768w, https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/543\/2019\/04\/IMG_1519-1024x905.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3239px) 100vw, 3239px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-Xiangwei Kong, Jianing Li<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This installation is a collaboration that consists of 2 emerging spaces. We focused on an abstract concept of a feeling of helplessness when we facing controlled domestic violence in the past. By recalling our own memories, we discovered that we both have similar childhood experience in the family life aspect. \u201cGoldfish in a glass jar\u201d is a phrase that can describe our situations in families. There is an old Chinese saying goes \u201cBlood is thicker than water\u201d, which means Family relationships are stronger than any others. However, it is usually easier to hurt people who are closer to you without notice and when the pain accumulates, you have the willingness to escape. By the time you are prepared to leave the glass jar, you are restrained by your bloodline. Eventually, you make a compromise in order to maintain a perfect family on the surface.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this installation, we used retro furniture including an armchair, flowers vase, tea table, mirror, and photo frames to depict domesticity. Empty photo frames represent absences of parenting. The furniture had been destroyed in a controlled way and fixed improperly, but at the same time, it remains the beauty superficially. The organic form leads the audience\u2019s eyes from photo frames to mirror which implies that our emotions towards violence are moving closer to a broader of collapse. Different tones of light sources would lead to a gradual change of the atmosphere from softness to tension. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"rupuQIqUCF\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/goldfish-in-a-glass-jar-detail\/\">detail<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;detail&#8221; &#8212; Jianing Li\" src=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/goldfish-in-a-glass-jar-detail\/embed\/#?secret=FvcBMMUAzg#?secret=rupuQIqUCF\" data-secret=\"rupuQIqUCF\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-Xiangwei Kong, Jianing Li This installation is a collaboration that consists of 2 emerging spaces. We focused on an abstract concept of a feeling of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/goldfish-in-a-glass-jar-crime-scene\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goldfish In a Glass Jar<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":992,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/jianingli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}