A Wardrobe closet of a personal belongings.I chose this because of the set objects in each shelf of the wardrobe. Each carefully placed alongside the next similar object. ie. Book to book, toy to toy, box to box…
Why do we do this? Why must we feel the need to arrange our possessions in such a way…. What makes us feel the need to place similar objects together, and distance them from other objects of the same or similar usages? From this I begin to think of the concept of out of ordinary objects/subjects, of opposite things ie. A child’s lunchbox (as in the image above) sitting next to a bottle of vodka…! I know that this particular example is due to the obvious hazardous reasons but what if it was in a larger context?!
What if in between the toy books we had seen an out of place object such as a union jack (Banksy) or a mug with a picture of a naked woman on it…? It’s kind of the same as the concept of asking the question of “Why do we name a chair a chair? Who says it is a chair and not a fork?” Who say’s, taking out of the equation any hazardous or other validating reasons for a second, that we should place all of our clothes in wardrobes and categorize them? Documents in folders, cutlery in cupboards etc!
What do we think when we see out of place objects? I guess you could say I’m trying to subvertise objects, placing them in out of ordinary environments…I would like to investigate this and see what I come up with! From this maybe even developing it into objects becoming something else with a different purpose, form etc. From this my aim is to question our way of thinking about objects and their purposes to us ie. the way in which we think as a whole.
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