I feel like my personal collections are really working, so I have decided to carry on with this by thinking of what other items I can collect which could push my collecting further whilst still portraying me.
Contact lenses.
These are something I use near enough every day to obviously help me see without the need of glasses. I felt this relates back to the make-up wipes in a way with perhaps the idea of vanity?? I hadn’t actually thought of my wipes like that until now I have never liked wearing my glasses so choose to wear contacts instead. I suppose in a way its but it is. They are my way of hiding away from showing everybody me. The wipes make-up gives me a mask and the contact lenses hide the fact I need help in seeing. I can see without having to have frames on my face, and no-one will know.
I began collecting the contact lens cases and originally stuck some to my studio wall as an initial way of displaying them. I then later sewed some together to see what worked and what didn’t. I quite liked the way they all sat nicely on top of each other when sewed together and although I only did this with a few I haven’t really experimented with them much since so is something I plan to do to see how they can be used for the best results. I think display will be an important factor with these. I could really play on the repeated shapes of them.
