Museum of The Ordinary

Oct 23, 2019
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Updated: Nov 11, 2019

The aim of this project was to create images that re-orientate the perspective of that object, making it seem like something from a museum. The Museum was the art building by the end of this project we had frames around ordinary objects that was scattered in and around the building.

We had to find objects to photograph or draw under specific categories; Dirty, Clean, Ugly, Beautiful, Bland, Eccentric, Distinctive, Ordinary and Special. This really helped me to see my surroundings and observe.

Photos

Dirty:

Clean:

Ugly:

Beautiful:

Bland:

Eccentric:

Distinctive:

Ordinary:

Special:

Drawings

Ordinary:

Distinctive:

Clean:

Final Piece

I chose this object as my final piece because I felt it covered many of the categories not just special but distinctive, plain and ordinary. That is why I named it person because you could say that all those categories could be the characteristics of a person. The singular crocheted stone also creates a narrative it makes you wonder what makes this 'person' different from the rest.

Research

Before I started this project I researched some designers to inspire me on how to make ordinary objects 'art'. I first looked at Richard Long who inspired me for my final selected outcome from this workshop. This was on his website a simple description on how he goes about his work:

In the nature of things: Art about mobility, lightness and freedom. Simple creative acts of walking and marking about place, locality, time, distance and measurement. Works using raw materials and my human scale in the reality of landscapes.

The music of stones, paths of shared footmarks, sleeping by the river's roar

I saw this before I saw his work, which was the best way because I was able to see how he tries to capture the beauty in the world around us through sculpture, photography, and drawings.

Richard Long - A circle in Antarctica 2012 - Linked

I was also inspired by the artist CY Twombley who was born in 1921 mainly his works consisted of scribbles and could be seen as quite ugly or boring but there is a real life and movement to them this inspired to go out and try find those scribbles in the art building and interpret that into my sketches as well work. I found many scribbles on desk and chairs which all had life and told different stories.