Some things I collect I like to keep in jars - I think a jar suggests that something is being preserved - that the something in the jar is precious or interesting, or just worth keeping. They signal something a little different to a 'specimin bag' type thing which I have also used. I collected scraps in jars whilst walking, these jars hung on the wall are part of a piece I showed for my recent second year assessment.
I've been trying to keep this practice up over the summer so that I have plenty of material to work with when I get back in the studio in september!
The things I've been collecting have been a bit more varied though - not just human 'left-overs'. I collected feathers and found broken bird eggs on one walk. It's that word again 'TRACE' - I can't get it out of my head, I think it's going to be really important in my work now.
Well, I'm starting to think we must send eachother our ideas telepathically and subconsciously! I was so going to do the jar thing! haha! ah well... looks really good though! xxx
ReplyDeleteI love the jar of feathers, looks like something so fragile and worthy of preserving. Almost environmental art! One for the Newton Park thing perhaps?
ReplyDeleteHmmmm maybe! Definitely a good thought. But the way you say they look 'worthy of preserving' - I quite like the other things which don't look worthy of preserving!
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