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Maps...

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Final Exhibition Installation Visualised

This is how I imagined the final show to look. An interactive installation, which would have consisted of 6 pieces (roughly) with the same format at shown here. Each would have had its own headphones/story accompanying it. The wood prints hopefully look like they are HUGE in the ‘room’ space. I wanted the sense that they tower over everything.

A reminder that the cuts on the wood were to depict the age the person was when they received the object and the other the age the giver died, in this case 22 and 80...unfortunately I ran out of blades for the saw so couldn’t do any more cuts!!!

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Bakelite Ballad

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Final Installation Ballad

Here are the words for the spoken piece for the exhibition installation.

Bakelite Ballad

Before I got married and lived ‘at home’ my Mum used to squeeze me 2 oranges every morning before I went to work. 

I took it for granted but we used to laugh about it. 

Before I got married and lived ‘at home’ my Mum used to squeeze me 2 oranges every morning before I went to work. 

I took it for granted but we used to laugh about it. 

I took it for granted but we used to laugh about it. 

I cherished the morning time we had together.  I did tell her in later life how I appreciated it and her.

I took it for granted but we used to laugh about it.

I took it for granted but we used to laugh about it. 

I cherished the morning time we had together. I did tell her in later life how I appreciated it and her.

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Final Installation Images - separate

Example photographs of the elements for the final installation plus words for the ballad, which are taken from the words of the participant and a structural ballad format has been used to repeat the phrases.

Final Album image for the wall.

Wood prints.

Object wrapped and on plynth.

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Story and Object - Participant 17 and chosen subject to mock up

1. A Bakelite juicer made by Philips

2. It was my best friend, my Mum , and it was one of her many gadgets!

3. Selfless. love , family

4. In the cupboard as I use it frequently.

5. 40 plus years

6. It will only happen when I pass it on.

7. That one of my daughters will use it

8. When I got married, 45 years - 22

9. 80

10. Before I got married and lived ‘at home’ my Mum used to squeeze me 2 oranges every morning before I went to work. I took it for granted but we used to laugh about it . I cherished the morning time we had together and I did tell her in later life how I appreciated it and her.

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Stories and Objects - Participant 11

1. It’s a baking spatula about 14 inches long , about a third of which is a wooden handle with two rivets that  fix the straight blade into the wood. It’s very well made. The blade is stainless steel and about an inch and a half wide.

2. It belonged to my mum Avril Mcminn . She was given it as part of a set as a wedding present when she married my dad 61 years ago. I don’t know who the gift giver was.

3. Family Food Love

4. I keep it in my kitchen utensils drawer next to the sink. Not in anything special - it just rattles around with the other long tools.

5. Nine years and 41 days

6. I would be fine about that. It’s in the memories , not in the object.

7. I’ve already told my daughter it’s hers when I die or become too decrepit to use it. I think she will like it and use it. It will definitely outlive me.

8. 48

9. 73

10. My mum was an outstanding pastry chef, although we didn’t call it that back then. She made a fancy desert for after the Sunday roast dinner every week.  I was  fascinated by her deft touch with the spatula . I always knew her care over what we ate was about love . Now  that I am older I can see that it was also about art and It was her own creative process . Whenever I use the spatula I look down at my hands and they look exactly like Mum, which makes me both sad and happy all at once.

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Stories and Object - Participant 8

1. Stoneware narrow necked jug with the words Robertson's soutra blend on the front and some dancing Scotsmen.

2. It was my dad's and his dad's before him and his dad's before him  - so my great grandfather had a pub called The Lord Nelson and this was a water jug for whisky.

3. Family. Precious. Unique

4. In living room. On display

5. 30 years

6. Devastated and bereft.

7. That it remains in my family. It's a connection to my dad and my kids never knew him so I'd like them to hang onto it to remember him.

8. 28

9. 54

10. There's only one in the whole world

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Stories and Object - Participant 12

1. A late 19th Century ( very worn and  not too pretty bag 12x10” basket weave leather  ) .It belonged to my grandmother who died 10 years before I was born . My mother kept her important documents in it . It still contains ancestors birth / death/ marriage certificates .Lair titles and my mums love letters.

2. I believe it belonged to my  grandmothers ,mother -so my great grandmother

3. Safety,love,memories

4. In my safe place . It still contains old family documents , my mothers love letters. I’ve added my own docs and   a few photographs from all generations.

5. Forever

6. I won’t feel ... I’ll be dead

7. That my daughter or son  might , just find a little space in their life for it. However ,It’s so old it may fall apart ,I would prefer that to it being  discarded.

8. 54

9. 1898

10. It’s only important to me...

Comment after the process - ‘I so liked that - it took me on a journey I never expected. Thanks for the trip down memory Lane’.

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Reminder of questions for study

Precious Things

Can you think of anything precious you keep that is dear to you?

1. Thinking of your precious object, please describe it.

2. Whose was it and where did it come from?

3. Pick 3 words that describe what it means to you

4. Where do you keep it? What do you keep it in?

5. Roughly how long have you had it (number of years or months)?

6. How would you feel if you had to let it go?

7. What are your hopes/thoughts for its destiny?

8. What age were you when you became the owner of the precious object? (if you're not sure, pick the closest number)

9. What age was the original owner of the precious object when they died? (if you're not sure, pick the closest number)

10. f there's anything important about the object you'd like to mention that's not covered above, please leave a note.

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Work to be used in final show

I intend to do a mock up of one piece to show some ideas of how it might have looked in an exhibition space.

I have asked the participants to wrap the object for me so I can explore this possibility int the final piece. and so that I have examples.

I wanted to include here some of the responses/stories and photographs from the ethnographic studied. These aren’t picked randomly but I self selected through either the type of object or the story behind it.

I have asked and had agreement for permission to use them.

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Towards Final Piece - notes

I have picked a number of pieces from the 23 (out of 32) participants. If I was making the exhibition for real I would choose 6 objects and stories and create individual pieces for each of them comprising of age related printed wood, album cover format attached to a headphones that would include a ‘ballad’ of the story of the object. I would also display the object on some form of plinth, wrapped or unwrapped depending on how things developed and ‘felt’.

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Clarification

4 elements so far under consideration.

For the main exhibition:

1. Forest of marked/scored wood - connecting the ages of the people to the object

2. Objects themselves and their display

3. Audio - story telling or words connected to the object in a ballad like format.

4. Book with the objects and the stories

My participation in this is the paintings/overpaintings in relation to my and what emerges as I am working the brief. Plus I have an object that I will display in the same manner as the rest.

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Development 3

Thinking about materials here and tie ins to the theme. I still feel that there is a deeper place to go with connection to materials used and the brief.

“A seemingly everyday piece of furniture is in fact made of two destroyed tables joined together and covered with a whitish veil of fabric, presumably the orphan's original tunic.  Upon even closer inspection, hundreds of small human hairs appear to be the thread that is attaching the tunic to the table.  Huyssen equates the structure of the tables to the body.  “If the tunic is like a skin…then the table gains a metaphoric presence as body, not now of an individual orphan but an orphaned community.” quote from Doris Salcedo’s piece Unland: The Orphan’s Tunic.

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Development 3 Display of Objects

Been thinking about how to display pieces. Something about displaying them as though they are expensive objects. Under glass cover or on elaborate podiums. Exploring other options.

Cy Twombly Sculpture MOMA - podiums that are made as part of the work.

Glass covered podiums. Or clothes covering glass podiums so you have to peek under to see, adding a mystery and an importance.

Jars and boxes

Wrapping the objects

Link to Judith Scott:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/opinion/an-artist-who-wrapped-and-bound-her-work-and-then-broke-free.html

Link to Christo and Jeanne Claude site:

https://christojeanneclaude.net/projects/wrapped-objects-statues-and-women?view=info

Cornelia Parker below

Urs Fischer - Liked that they made the pieces in situ with live models they studied taking part in the exhibition aswell.. “setting up a relationship between real life and the study“ Display boxes/tables etc feel as important as the sculptures.

Untitled 2011

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Development 3  - wood prints

This is the information attached to the Bakelite object. Age 45-85 years.

Marking sticks - 1 each for years you knew person..how long they lived.

Connected by line - large scale..forest of connections community.

Trying to give a sense of the prints in situ with a bit of scale

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Development 3 - concept album visuals

Experiments with visuals for front of album cover. Anticipate that these will be pinned to the wall and headphones will be attached with the audio files.

Back of album...beginning to think about how I might use the words.