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Okay, so yeah, this piece is, it's got a lot of different shades of like a jade green color, bluish green, and all of the different sections that

are held together with this gold glue sort of have different patterns on them.

So there's some that look more like textiles, some of them are more of like a solid color, some of them have kind of a carved pattern. And yeah, it looks really cool.

There's a lot of different kind of bulbous elements that have been kind of put together. And it

reminds me a lot of almost like a volcanic rock that's been, you know, had a lot of things like

bubbling to the surface and then sort of solidifying into a hardened object.

It looks kind of feminine, like a feminine shape to me, very curvy.

It's comprised of a bunch of spears and ovals

and very abstract shapes that looked like you kind of smush them all together and there are gold cracks running along to the whole piece.

So the description or the, I don't know what to call it, the caption underneath the piece talks about how it's

like a Japanese process of joining kind of broken shards together with gold.

So I know that's called kintzugi and it's about kind of like taking something that's been

broken and then putting it back together in a way that was more beautiful than before.

And so I think that this piece is really cool in that way because it's taking all these

sort of fragments of vases from before and then putting them into another vase, I guess, but sort of a more

abstracted face.

I think it's really interesting that the base is meant to hold nothing. It's closed. Going back to the title,

translated vase, I really appreciate the title because I think it's very true to the artwork.

As viewers of art, we're all going to have different translations of it, even though it can be the same thing

and how this vase is made of a bunch of different materials. It's different translations, but it's still the same thing.

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