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Some time ago, i decided i wanted to make a shrine.

I chose to do a shrine to the seven senses: touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing, feeling, thought.

The 7 large figures are the 7 senses. Each has a face that is comprised of a symbol that is based on a medical drawing that has to do with the part of the body that is responsible for that sense. (example: sight symbol is based on an medical illustration of the cone of an eye).

The 49 small figures that they hold are all the possible combinations of 2 of the senses- each pairing has a positive and a negative.

For instance... Touch + Taste = Eating/Gluttony

Each small figure has an illustration of the aspect of human existence it represents on it's chest.

The piece was displayed with a poster that listed all the aspects that the 49 characters represented. Each small character has a small symbol of the forehead- this symbol was located next to the aspect that, that figure stood for.

As if this wasn't enough already (this is a shrine after all, and needed to have the level of complication one would expect from a shrine). Each large figure has a name inscribed on the front of it's chest in an alphabet i made up. The "offspring" of each pair is also named in this alphabet on the back. The "offspring's" name is comprised of the first two syllables of the name of it's two parent senses. The negative's name is the syllables reversed. As you can see, it's all very complicated. It took quite some time to invent and think through it all.

In addition to everything i've written above, the small figures could be changed out of the large figures hands so that they could hold several possible combinations of the smaller figures. This would allow the owner/audience to change the configuration of the piece thereby adding their own senses to the expression of the piece. I allowed the audience to play with the piece while it was on display (much to the dismay of many of my art friends) and i'm happy to say there was only one piece that was damaged.

that's it...enjoy.

Description
Some time ago, i decided i wanted to make a shrine.

I chose to do a shrine to the seven senses: touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing, feeling, thought.

The 7 large figures are the 7 senses. Each has a face that is comprised of a symbol that is based on a medical drawing that has to do with the part of the body that is responsible for that sense. (example: sight symbol is based on an medical illustration of the cone of an eye).

The 49 small figures that they hold are all the possible combinations of 2 of the senses- each pairing has a positive and a negative.

For instance... Touch + Taste = Eating/Gluttony

Each small figure has an illustration of the aspect of human existence it represents on it's chest.

The piece was displayed with a poster that listed all the aspects that the 49 characters represented. Each small character has a small symbol of the forehead- this symbol was located next to the aspect that, that figure stood for.

As if this wasn't enough already (this is a shrine after all, and needed to have the level of complication one would expect from a shrine). Each large figure has a name inscribed on the front of it's chest in an alphabet i made up. The "offspring" of each pair is also named in this alphabet on the back. The "offspring's" name is comprised of the first two syllables of the name of it's two parent senses. The negative's name is the syllables reversed. As you can see, it's all very complicated. It took quite some time to invent and think through it all.

In addition to everything i've written above, the small figures could be changed out of the large figures hands so that they could hold several possible combinations of the smaller figures. This would allow the owner/audience to change the configuration of the piece thereby adding their own senses to the expression of the piece. I allowed the audience to play with the piece while it was on display (much to the dismay of many of my art friends) and i'm happy to say there was only one piece that was damaged.

that's it...enjoy.