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Finger Lamp by HO Siu Kee


Gaining experience through our senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch) and making use of such experience to discern various phenomena in the world is probably the basic requirement for human being to survive. The body is indeed the subject of constructing the perceptual world. However, as a living being capable of activity and possesses gesture, the body is also the object of perception. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a French philosopher, perceives the body as our expression in the world and the visible form of our intention. This manifests the communicative function of the body. In fact, gesticulating with the body is always the most primitive and direct means of expression. Putting the body in a specific setting, using senses as the contact point and taking the perceptual world as the field of imagination, are often the basic requirement for creation and interpretation of works of art.


 

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