This hand-bound book collected images that referenced objects from everyday life, like a deck of cards or a hair tie. The images were abstracted or obscured by an opaque cover sheet. My intention was to add an element of intrigue to personal, commonplace objects.
My collection plays with the recognition of the ridiculous advancement in biological engineering and how people mutate organisms often for entertainment. Some of the items I found and recreated seemed like they could have been extracted from an alchemy or witchcraft book. So I constructed my piece into a molecular form, having each object as an important makeup for this new molecule. Each little item has a description and instructions on how much to mix. The bottom cup is empty because we are still searching how to combine all these creations and inventions into something catastrophic.
I am fascinated by the entire life cycle of objects, including the part of the object’s history that continues after its use. I collected objects that were broken or missing pieces. These details would otherwise render the objects useless or undesirable. I searched for some connection to the object’s larger history or to the human relationship with the object.
“Straight Guy Humping Pillow”
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2014
“Incredibly passionate real sex scene”
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2014
“Hot lesbians get it on in disapproving moms house”
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2014
“Naughty blond babysitter gets fucked hard from behind”
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2014
“College girl takes her first black cock”
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2014
Collections are most often precious; perfectly arranged china, priceless dolls in a dark wood cabinet, etc. These kinds of things are what comes to mind for me when I hear “collection”. For most, the reason for collecting is because of the value of the items. For this project then, I decided to go the opposite way. I wanted to make a collection of objects that interested me visually, but held no significant value on their own. I was also interested in the idea of narrative, seeing how placing a couple incongruous objects in an otherwise similar group could suggest a story.
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The system I chose to target for 24 hours was Education. In Part 1, I determined that one of the outputs of the Education system is ‘Demonstrated Learning.’ ‘Demonstrated Learning,’ I determined, usually comes in the forms of essay papers, artistic works, or grades on exams. I selected ‘Demonstrated Learning’ as a Leverage point, and concluded that I could disrupt this system by producing nothing, showing no evidence of learning.
For 24 hours, I thought about various ways to complete this assignment and break systems of my daily life routines. In the end, I attempted no new behaviors and produced nothing more than this blog post. By making no changes to my daily routine, I did not complete the assignment for Concept III: Systems and Processes.
These drawings are the evidence of an experiment. ‘Spending Free Time’ and ‘Observing Others’ were the primary systems affected by this work.
Instead of spending my free time on Facebook, I sketched the people around me.
Instead of observing others via Facebook, I took a closer look at how people were interacting in the physical world.
