Michael Branthwaits Reading
After the reading from Michael Branthwait he gave us a task to think of a piece of art that we can do continuously for a while in connection with the reading that he provided us with on the day.
My idea was to collect the receipts from different students and see what things we consume the most!
I went around and asked as many people in the studio to don't chuck away their receipts but to leave them in a pile on my table. In a matter of 1 hour I came back from dinner to see that there was loads of receipts left for me to use which was good.
I first put them up on the wall using various colour push pins in no real structure at all with the intention of filling my whole studio space. But, then I sat and looked at the wall and I didn't really understand why I had used different colours, I started to gather blue, green and red push pins in which I used each one for a certain receipt category. This was also interesting because it questions peoples privacy with giving out card details.
The categories go like this:
Blue - Food (As seen below)
Green - General Items (As seen below)
Red - Clothing (As seen below)
This is what it looks like on my wall:
When looking at this part of my studio wall now, it is really interesting because it looks like students mostly consume food, but this could change as I want to keep this process going to fill my studio and get a better prospective into what students buy!
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