Lily Shih

Philosophical paragraph

I believe that we have to look beyond the physical reality. We should bring ideas into reality. Our world gets improve because of the brilliant ideas that we have in our mind. Our world gets interesting because we live our life with imagination, which takes the very first information from reality and then re-arranges or re-organizes them into new things. In the Plato’s World of Ideas, Ideas are thought to exist for themselves, separately from their correspondent into this world and the possibility of their materialization. I believe in the existence of non-beings. The periodic table of elements is a good example. There are spots in the table that haven’t been filled out because there were no corresponding elements found, yet their properties have already been figured out. We know exactly what these elements should be like if there were to be at all. Another example, there are 364 days of un-birthday. We should believe in Platonic Ideational thought by asseverating the existence of un-birthdays that are Non-Material Beings. The idea of the Ultimate Reality is the principal belief of Plato; we are living in a world of ideas when we live a spiritual life. Ideas are abstractions, notions that are supposed to correspond to realities, and as long as ideas correspond to realities, they are absolutely valid. Personally, I believe that unicorn and Smurf do exist; I know most of the people won’t agree. I think beyond.

Artist Statement

My collage has something to do with the existence and non-existence. If you’ve watch Alice in the wonderland, you’ll notice at the beginning of the film, when Alice falls into the rabbit hole, she picks up a jar, it was labeled “ORANGE MARMALADE”, and its empty. She then put it back on the shelves. The orange jam does not exist because nobody makes jam out of oranges, but it does not mean that the Idea of the orange jam does not exist. It is easy to imagine an orange jam and once you have the Idea, it exists. The jar is perfectly corresponding to things from real world. Now you have the Idea of the orange jar, but no real thing to fill it with. She puts it back is because there is no way to throw away an Idea once you had it. There are Smurfs on my collage. The earth is brushed blue by the Smurfs. It means the world is filled with ideas, including the non-existence like Smurf and unicorn. Smurf is a creature of the reorganize of people, small, and blue. There’s a really children in the Smurf form. Unicorn is just a combination of a horse and a horn. They are all non-beings that do exist. I believe. There is a faceless head but with hair that has a robot on it. It represents that people should think beyond. Also, the robot is holding some ideas. We should believe in the Platonic Idea thought, in fact, the non-being exists.
The collage should be upside-down, sorry.