‘Your desk is your space’
The aim of the POPUP project is to ‘create and assemble a
visually exciting Popup collection of objects that interconnect in a variety of
ways to illuminate some aspect of your contemporary experience.’ My first
approach to the project was thinking about possible collections, perhaps representing
a place, a personal experience, a journey, a favourite memory or even a narrative.
After brainstorming my ideas, I decided that the inside of a handbag
would be particularly interesting. I collected items found in my own handbag,
as well as my friends.
I found the concept of collecting items from a handbag stimulating
as you can almost identify one’s interests and personality just from the items
they have in their handbag. For example train tickets can allow us to work out
where the owner has been travelling, receipts can allow us to distinguish what
type of clothes they wear and what type of food they eat, and the colour
palette of one’s make-up helps suggest what image visually they go for. As handbags
are most commonly worn by females, my collection consists of a feminine colour
palette, although depending on which handbag I collected objects from this
varied. I chose five words that represented my collection: FEMININE, PERSONAL,
TRAVEL, NEUTRAL, and EXPERIENCES.
During studio time we experimented drawing our objects in various
ways. For example we did series of line drawings as well as drawing our objects
to portray different textures such as smooth, fury, spikey, sharp and shiny. I
particularly enjoyed combining a group of objects together and drawing each one
as a different texture, layering them up.
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