| July 27, 2008 |
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When I play junior Joseph Cornell and wannabe Rauschenberg,
this is the result.
Packrats like myself accumulate lots of debri that's otherwise worthless except that we think it looks kind of interesting, and this quickly gets to the point where you've got to throw it away or box it up. My solution is to box it up in transparent boxes for easy viewing. |
| "One" |
| But "one" is not the first -- that one was lost. |
| "One" (closeup) |
| This includes some sweepings from the floor of a Michaels (an arts and crafts chain) where I was working at an awful temp job, shortly after grad school. This still makes me cringe. |
| "Two" |
| A similar idea: my pencil sharpener, designed to collect and display shavings from a variety of novelty pencils. |
| "Two": Surface Of Shavings |
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| "Two" Shavings Closeup |
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| "Two" Shaveings Closeup |
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| "Two" The Bottom |
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| "Four" |
| This one is probably Raven's favorite. I would guess she likes the use of empty space... |
| "Four": Immense Journey |
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| "Four" Back View |
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| "Three" And "Five" |
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A box full of crushed tail light plastic I've
collected from the street over the years, with another on top of
it based on a cable bike lock, clipped in an attempted theft.
(Calling this one "three" only works if you ignore the window of my office at SGI, which I disassembled when I left... maybe I have a snapshot of it somewhere though: "three and a half"?) |
| "Six" |
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The background in this shot was strictly accidental. I dislike this one a lot. The surveillance "theme" is too obvious and the way the stuff fits in the box seems a bit off somehow. (Just when I think there's nothing to it, I get one wrong, and realize there's more involved than I thought.) |
| "Seven": Cassette Box |
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| "Infinite": The Box We Live In |
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