Video: Games with big numbers. Installation of 10 thousand toy soldiers by Francis Hollenkamp
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
More recently, a seven-billionth inhabitant appeared on planet Earth. Seven billion people! Can you even imagine this huge number of people? This question was asked by an American artist Francis Hollenkampwho created installation 10000 Toy Soldiers Installation.
Toy soldiers were the children's favorites of almost all the men reading these lines. They are also loved by artists who create their works on the basis of these warlike toys. For example, the American art group Dorothy created its own kind of soldiers, crippled by war and disease. And the artist Francis Hollencamp presented the world with an installation consisting of 10 thousand miniature warriors.
There is a well-known phrase that “the death of one person is a tragedy, the death of a thousand people is a statistic”. The installation of 10000 Toy Soldiers Installation is dedicated to statistics and people.
After all, a person is not able to imagine large groups of people. A thousand, ten thousand, million, billion, seven billion people - all these are abstract numbers for our consciousness, which have nothing to do with real people.
“We often hear phrases like trillions of dollars or millions of refugees. But to what extent can we understand these words, represent them? These gigantic numbers remain for us in the field of abstraction - consciousness cannot cope with the task of identifying these phrases. It is easy to imagine five pencils, but it is impossible to imagine a hundred or a thousand pencils. When we talk about a million dollars, we do not keep in mind every dollar of this million, when we talk about a hundred thousand people, we do not think about each of these people separately. In my installation 10000 Toy Soldiers Installation, I try to explore the concepts of number, identity and scale, including in relation to people”- this is how Francis Hollencamp explains the concept of his project.
The 10,000 Toy Soldiers Installation consists of 10,000 toy soldiers that look like a single whole from the outside. But, if you look closely, then in each of the groups you can find individuality, in each of the soldiers - a person, and not an item of statistics.
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