What is a name? Why does everyone have a name? What purpose does it have? And for whom? (2020)
Material: Silkscreened images
and text in book format.
Note: Graduation work from Gerriet Rietveld Academie
Note: Graduation work from Gerriet Rietveld Academie
I couldn’t stop thinking that people initially started to use names for convenience only, but that names morphed into something more significant.
A destiny can be attached to a name. Some parents carefully check the
meaning of a name and wish their child will live up to that. But a name can’t
define that baby and also you will never know if the baby will grow up like that
name, or will like the meaning or expectation that comes with that name.
Then which name becomes the perfect name for someone or something?