Please Remember Me
Multimedia Intsallation, Found household objects, garden wire,

Radio sounds, archived personal objects.

 

This wind chime, made from collected seashells, old bottles and a broken picture frame signifies the whole installation you are about to enter. Objects bound, suspended by and incorporated into wire, forcing the viewer to walk through and navigate an oddly familiar environment. The sounds of the cans and shells hitting against each other add to the sensory experience articulated through the interaction of the wire with the objects themselves. The wire, twisting and flowing, tight and loose ended, takes on a life of its own as it becomes the link between the space and the object and the object and the viewer. Lastly, a trolley handle bar, reminiscent of past explorations leading to this point, references the anthropomorphic qualities that the objects are given within the space through the curve of a wire. As well as the way in which objects, though not personally owned by the viewer, can create links and connections to the individual when arranged in a familiar way, even to the point of creating a universal home-like environment of warmth. 

 

The playful quality of this site specific work also references artist model Yona Lee and the way in which she weaved her work through the existing structure of the space. I decided to use the wire to link parts of the space (vertically, horizontally, diagonally) to the viewer and to other walls, creating an added functionality to a blank cube and its empty corners. Also by suspending objects in odd places, whether it be up high or down low, it frees the space from a rigid structure and opens it up to more interpretation, humour and intrigue.

 

Now, please walk through the wind chime into the space and listen to the moments when the objects speak,

“Please Remember Me”.