Week 3- Death: the human experience Exhibition

This exhibition is on at the bristol museum & art gallery. It is an exhibition that collects and represent hundred of objects and symbols that related to death from different culture.

From this exhibition, it reveals that how people in distinct background deal with the end of life and how’s their attitude about this issue that every human beings are going to experience.

Also, seems that in many culture, death is always a topic and taboo that most people are not willing to talk about. In this exhibition, it encourages people to face the journey we are all going to make.

For me, this exhibition inspires me to rethink the attitude about life and death. There is a quote I saw in the exhibition that I like very much.

‘You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.’- Mae West

There is only one chance in lifetime, so we have to do it right.
We have to experience the life, to make right decisions for life, to choose what kind of life do you want before it’s too late, before the end of life. And this brings up another question: what is a “right life” ? I think there’s no correct answer for this question. It depends on what do you want to pursue or achieve in your lifetime; what is the life purpose you’re after, what brings happiness to your life.

Finally, this exhibition gives me some rough ideas. I am interested in that it represents a conceptual idea(death) by collecting different symbols or objects that has similar meanings from different culture. I am interested in that one idea might be represented in different way because of different people or background. I am interested in that how to form and link the image and an invisible, shapeless conceptual idea.