Fix

We got our first assignment on the 17th of September. We have to create a body of work to explore the idea fix. To start of we had to go find lost abandoned and now useless objects to respond to under the term fix.

Hmmmmm, fix. To fix two things together. Using different kinds of fixatives, like glue or stitches.

How do you fix something that’s broken? Do you hide the break (restoration), or do you make a feature of it? Making a feature of an objects breaks and flaws is called wabi-sabi. Wabi-sabi is a Japanese term meaning to accept the flaws and imperfections in objects, and looking at them in a new light so that you see the beauty in them.

I went for a walk to the beach. I was really looking to find discarded or lost objects. I was just about to give up when I came across a circle of feathers. Obviously a bird had been got by a dog or something. I picked up a clump of feathers still attached to each other. This sounds strange but the more i looked the more i felt like I had struck gold.

Birds to me have always reminded me of freedom. Flight is the closest thing I can imagine to true freedom. Whenever iv been really down I imagine flying away to just feel less heavy.

In college i started playing with photographing my feathers and the other objects I’d found round the house. I decided to experiment with light and shadow. So of the shadows coming of the feathers looked like birds in flight. Like the ghost of a bird. The feathers are no longer attached to a bird but they still hold the memory of flying, the feeling of being free.