Today I finished the 137 rubbish drawings for my newspaper.
Each of the artists’ works featured on my rubbish blog http://contemporaryrubbish.wordpress.com has been sorted into 2 piles: Thesis Pile and Newspaper Pile. Thesis Pile are works which I can relate to specifically through my own works and will discuss in my thesis, and Newspaper Pile are works which don’t have a direct correlation with my own work and are in a sense ‘rejects’ or ‘discards’ from this process now undergoing a recycling process.
I’ve drawn each work in the Newspaper Pile as a study as a way to confirm or reject my initial categorisation. Some works have been recategorised in this process.
The drawings will feature alongside found pieces of information under each rubbish category and it’s these 137 drawings I’ve finally completed.
Having started out drawing a couple from each rubbish category, I decided to batch draw them alphabetically according to category so the whole process was broken down into manageable chunks. Waste was the last category and Tomoko Takahashi’s My Play-station (2005) the last work in that category. (That is, unless I come across any more works before the newspaper page designs are laid out!) It’s an installation shot from the show at the Serpentine where the public where invited to come and dismantle to pile of rubbish and take away anything they wanted. Here’s some media coverage of the ‘Serpentine Take-Away’ from the time:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/apr/11/arts.art…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4429613.stm
