I was sat in my space yesterday having a break from work and realised how much of my work is actually waste material. Then started thinking what am I going to do with all the wipes and cotton wool which I have collected earlier on which aren’t on my boards or aren’t made into something. I started thinking about how could I display them in my degree show without taking over too much of space overloading it with my collections, if I were to use them.
I started thinking about some artists I have looked at this year, and went back to Dieter Roth. I thought about how he displayed his collections away in files with only a few displayed on view in clear plastic lit by a lamp. I wondered if it would work if I were to file away my collections in ring binders for example?
Therefore I took a trip into town and bought one hundred plastic wallets and three white ring binders for which I would use to display these objects in. I came back and began my filing. I ended up using all one hundred of these plastic wallets for my wipes so only managed to do one folder until I go back to town to get more for my other collections.
While I was separating my wipes into each individual wallet I noticed how on some wipes my eyelashes had obviously fallen whilst i was taking my make-up off for those particular days. My first instinct was to remove them from the wipe and add them to my eyelash collection, then I thought surely removing my eyelashes from these wipes will take away the abject feeling when looking through the folder and finding an eyelash and wondering why it’s there? Therefore I decided to leave them on, once I had noticed one I kept noticing them throughout my folder. I also noticed there are a few eyelashes just hanging off my dress too. There is something I really like about this. Like a secret surprise for the viewer…
