Found objects, in various ways make up a large part of my work and hold endless interest. An ongoing project (stories are all welcome and people may submit directly to the blog) of mine is The Lost & Found Museum, a project that works as a museum by collecting and displaying found objects, looks at loss and discovery but not only of things, it also collects stories of personal loss and discovery.
Please feel free to get involved and share a story, object, sound, poem or anything you like.
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Video sequence of found objects.
badges I made for the Lost & Found Museum exhibition
Part of my interest in found objects is that they are all things made from raw materials, stuff that has taken energy and effor to create and things that have potential for other uses, not to just to end up in the garbage so I want to explore creative and artistic approaches to this, I did a project called "artefakes" where I recreated pieces I had found and painted them gold, these were deposited around Santa Cruz, Madrid and Manchester with notes and Hashtags encouraging people to send me their feedback. My thought was that a shiny gold item will always stop you and make you look, thinking it has value, so people would be likely to pick them up.
I started the project in Tenerife while I was on Erasmus, as a way to use the found objects I collected and then had the project featured in the Free For Arts Festival in Manchester (Exhibition guide p. 14) at the same time.
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The map of where they had been left
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A couple of blog posts I made during the project, and one by the course
one of the artefakes in situ, I mapped out where they were left and this one is the seal of the city of La Laguna, tenerife
one during the Free For Arts Festival in 2016
one of the artefakes in situ, I mapped out where they were left and this one is the seal of the city of La Laguna, tenerife