Few ideas from Tom Friedman:

-          ‘magic out of the ordinary’

-          ‘unexpected beauty’ – these items are so ordinary but through playing with their material strengths and working with my intuition on colour combinations and textures, different layers of interest and beauty emerge.

-          Simple but interesting and beautiful manipulations that lend the work brevity and authority.

-          Bringing the viewer’s attention to these everyday objects, encouraging them to re consider their relationship to these objects and other ideas that they may reference for the viewer. 

 -      Using my intuition – avoiding too much planning in my choice of materials

 -   Continuing to play with the idea of simple manipulation or totally transforming these objects to consume their original purpose in the everyday...

-         Manipulating these everyday objects and reassessing them... heightening their authority as now being considered ‘art’

-          Putting the viewer into a zone of contemplation

-          Partially manipulating them...or making personal manipulations/ alterations – changing patterns, construction, and rhythms found in the original objects.

-          References the ideas of deconstruction and reconstruction

-          Conversation between the two - the original constructor and me the de-constructor and then reconstructor.

Value:

-          investment of labour  and time into something adds value...something grander than it is in the sense of value...it becomes ‘art.’

-          it adds value when it makes connections with something else beyond it..

-          the materials gain a new importance.

-          Creed.... “the understated and the ordinary, things that were over-heard and changed us, cheap familiar materials played with to implode meaning and context.”

-          creating works where my process and the material choices I  have made unfold when exploring the work. The viewer can experience this journey through my deliberate display of layers in each specifically crafted work.

-          The critical theorist, Theodor W Adorno stated that “if the use value of things dies,” these alienated and hollowed-out objects can come to be charged with new subjectivity. While the things become “images” of subjective intentions, this does not erase their thingness: dialectical images remain montages, constellations of alienated things and meaning.” 

Collecting everyday garments: Op shops, K rd

2013 Talk week installation progress:

1st exploring colour combinations and materials:

 

Further development: layering unravelled found materials, showing my journey and and gathering thorught the layers