Jeanne C. I wanted to explore Rick's comments to Klara on the nature of his and Josie's relationship, focusing on the idea that he and Josie would always be together on some level, even though they "were bound to go their separate ways...despite everything, their love would last" (Ishiguro 289). The idea that people you love and care for always leave their marks on you, and that there is some tie connecting two people and a mutual change stemming from a relationship was interesting to me, and I tried to express it in my half sculpture half painting. I modeled hands with plaster, foam and paint to try and make it look somewhat realistic, before adding in much more cartoony details, such as stitches in the white hands made up of the same yarn as the very big oversized 'friendship bracelets' that bound the two hands together. I also tied the thinnest and plainest 'bracelet' from one hand's pinkie to the other, in some sense representing childhood pinky promises to remember and cherish things that most generally forget with time. Keeping the hands pure white but leaving the yarn colorful, I tried to show the concept of change from love being a net positive, even when it ends.The hands are set in something that looks almost like a white void, bordered by different generic images of children playing. I wanted to portray the idea that even when childhood friends grow up and grow apart, they leave their mark on each other, even if that tie can't be consciously traced and remembered. Rick and Josie have changed each other and affected each other's lives, both in ways they can conceptualize and understand and in ways they cannot. Whether or not they continue to remain friends, this change is permanent and meaningful nonetheless.
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