Sunday, June 18, 2006

Jar.



Probably the best pasta in the world.

I've urinated into this jar in the past. The word 'change' gives new limits and opportunities to the visual object, as a container doing its job and as a whole including its content. I suppose you could easily reach into my life and smash the jar, but this would cause upset as well as dangerous shards and pest bait.

So the game here is:
container,
content,
title.

These elements provide the basis of play. Any container plus any content plus any title/word/caption equals object ripe for a good photographing.

Some possible names for the 'piece':

"Jar of pasta with change on it"
"Change 2006"
"Jar of Life"
'Homage to Laziness'
"Gone Cold, Gone Soft"
"Leftovers in Glass"
"Fun with Food"
"The Riddle of Italy"
"With Nowt Taken Out"

I am copying my own work. Last year, for our end-of-term show, I created five or six sculptures and invented stupid titles that parody the plinth fodder of Today. This is similar. I am glad to be inspired by such a close source.

All of these decisions can easily be rendered as utterly pointless innit. But if the pasta is happy then so am I.

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