Project One

Project One:

Collections:

From Wunder Kammern and Kabinette to Joseph Cornell to Fred Wilson and Suzanne Anker, collecting, ordering and creating narrative/coherence through the juxtaposition of objects has been a fruitful practice for understanding our place in the world around us.  We will look at several works by each of these practitioners in class.

Your assignment is to create a collection that expresses your ecology, your relationship to your environment, or your physical surroundings.  Ecology can be commonly defined as:

1.   The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.

2.     The study of the interaction of people with their environment.

How are you an organism and what are the physical intersections between you and your environment?

Rules:

1. Your collection must have a minimum of 16 pieces in it.

2. You must write a short (250 word) explanation of how these objects are related and how they relate to you.

3. Your collection must fit into the box we will begin building in class today.

4. The collection in its box will be shown in the space outside the Summer’s Gallery on January 31^st.