This project originally started by exploring my relationship and attachment to my personal objects. I love them, I am fixated by them. I find the outer world hard to grasp but there was something about my personal connection to them which felt pure, the love was something I didn’t understand but something I knew. There was a particular criteria the objects must have, I knew that some things fit this and some didn’t. But that’s all I knew.
Despite the attachment, sitting amongst these things sparked a partly negative feeling. I could never be close enough to them. We’re on different timelines, one day I will die and they can’t come with me.
I set out to explore these feelings, picking apart the objects and my own feelings towards them. Through the work the main themes which came up were function, ownership and permanence.
Function is potential, being equipped and able.
It is the purpose which I am searching for.
Ownership is identity, things uniquely related to you.
It’s the self which I am searching for.
Permanence is time and control.
It’s the grasp on time and fleeting moments which I wish I had.
Please see the images below for some of my exploration on this topic.
Personal object documentation.
Copper mask & miniature copper mask necklace.
I thought I found this beautiful old folding knife on the floor, it was actually a leaf. I decided I wanted to bring this imagined object to life.
The imagined knife, brought to life.
A stamp pendant I made. This object is countering the problems I have with fleeting moments. The potential is endless and the timeline can always be started again.