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Category: Art, InsightBojagi or bo for short (also pojagi or bojaki) is a traditional Korean wrapping cloth. Bojagi are square and can be made from a variety of materials, though silk is common. Embroidered bojagi are known as subo.[1]
Bojagi have many uses, including as gift wrapping, in weddings, and in Buddhist rites.
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Category: Art, Insight, Material
Mosaic puzzle comprises of various colored cubes and the chopsticks with which pick them up. There are no rules; players create their own. The cubes are from tagua nuts found in South American Tropical rain forest.
The Tagua nut is an extremely hard nut that comes from the Ivory nut palm. Its endosperm can be carved and polished like ivory, making it a botanical alternative to elephant ivory.
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Hidden Profiles
Category: Art, Insight
“This Visual game of hiding the profiles of political figures in sprays of flowers (or in the branches and leaves of trees) was a way of simultaneously conveying support and celebrating them by floral association……”
“Napoleon’s assurance to this supporters, on being exiled to Elba, that he would return in the Spring - “the violet season”- was celebrated in the display of bunches of violets, and in numerous prints of the flower with this profile hidden in them……”
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Category: Art, Insight
“Arranging things - the placement of objects in three-dimensional composition - is considered as a form of rhetoric persuasive communication”
“Rhetoric (from Greek ῥήτωρ, rhêtôr, orator, teacher) is generally understood to be the art or technique of persuasion through the use of oral language and written language; however, this definition of rhetoric has been contested since rhetoric emerged as a field of study in Universities.” - Wikipedia
Points:- Hierarchy, Alignment, Sensoriality, Metaphor, Narrative, Coherence, Resonance
Allusion, synecdoche, Simile
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