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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Art about Precious Personal Items

I'm very interested in creating something that compiles the sentimental objects that I've hoarded, and responds to my psychological need to hoard them at all. Questions spin in my head about w h y junk is saved, what  p u r p o s e  it served in its "active life" in contrast to the purpose it is serving now in storage, and how my material attachments would change if I compiled selected pieces of my sentimentally hoarded junk into an aesthetic - possibly functional - object.

My thoughts first came when I wrote the Louise Bourgeois Blog Post and became inspired  by / personally connected to the artist's textile work. A lot of the questions that I'm asking myself as an artist-inside-of-an-artist's-head, are hypothetically good bases for Essential Questions in Lesson Plans. I'm starting to see the relevancy of this concept in a high school student's life.

Some related visuals that I'm thinking about using as aids/guides to the concept:

 

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