26 Characters Photos

26 Characters Photos

I finally decided to narrow my ideas down to something more sustainable. My main concept would be movement. This is because each item has either came from somewhere weird, or travelled all around with me. For example, the elastic band ball has been created over 10 years of my life through the process of collecting elastic bands of the street in Newcastle, Leeds, London and Ireland and has followed me all the way. The socks are very old have been hard to throw away given the fact they're my favourite. Even though they are un-wearable I still keep them. They have travelled on my feet in all sorts of places over many years. My necklace is a valuable present which I have also had for many years and has a boor can opener as the charm which was a delicious beer. My coffee cup has came from the place I used to work at which was the best job I ever had and travels everywhere with me so I can drink out of it every day. Finally, cheese is my favourite food and I wanted to include it in several forms. Originally I was going to use my cheese board as that has also travelled far, but I found the cheese would be more fun to play with. To make these objects reflect upon this travel concept, I photographed them all in motion and documented them visually. 

Another link I found between all of my objects was that given the fact I love them all, they all have a negative as well. I decided I also wanted to document this on top of the other idea also. For instance my mug has a crack in it and has coffee stains. My expensive necklace has a really cheap charm which contrasts it. My socks have holes in them and my ball is dirty and falling apart. Finally, the cheese goes out of date and gets pretty sweaty quite often. I took photos of the flaws in my objects to show this solid link between them.