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This video is a new direction for the Overgrown San Francisco project that I have spent a year creating. That project came about by simple fate, since I kept ruining into very strange items on the street. It came out very organically, I slowly built up a photographic catalog of discarded items, the one item that solidified the development of Overgrown SF is an Apple desktop computer that I found on the street. The computer seemed to be in great shape, I really wanted to take it home, even if I already had a computer, the only reason that I did not take it home is due to possible friends. Most items on the street, depending on how long they have been there gather a group a friends, aka: bugs.
From where I’m from, we do not see this amount of discarded items on the street. Now living in San Francisco, It fascinated and saddened me, and a hole mix of feelings in between. But what got to me the most is the idea that these items had a whole different life behind them, I feel that some were at least loved at one point or another. In my head I thought them to be homelessness, and in that same way people, the forgotten, overlooked, in a city that is overgrown.