Influences On Art
Destruction of the Father by Louise Bourgeois speaks of her experience with a male dominated household, in which she was not allowed to speak her mind freely. The work, abstracted and unobvious, is about her physically wanting to eat her father because of the frustration he caused her as a child. This relates to the part of the theory in which the infant will exhibit biting and chewing tendencies as an act of frustration.
Kelly Jacobson's Origin of Mouthstones exhibited bits of teeth and fossilized bite marks embedded in sand and stone. That paired with her silent video of inaudible speech point to lack of communication resulting in frustration.
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