Theme: Found Object

Theme: Found Objects

Context:

• Marcel DuChamp, Fountain. How could something so prosaic, so ubiquitous change our concept of art? Could it be that the nature of an object, any object, has a story to tell and can have an impact on the viewer.
• Tracy Emin, My Bed. There is something incredibly personal about an unmade bed, perhaps the shock of this art is that something so private being displayed so publicly breaks our taboos about how we present our public face. I particularly love that someone felt so moved they started to clean up Ms Emin's messy private/public representation.

Method:

Create a stop motion from found objects, that is, my stash of teabags in my uni backpack

Response:

The tea bags have an open weave casing that lets water to move around the leaves. This fluid movement of the leaves gives me a feeling like watching smoke from a campfire, it's calming but always moving. While playing with the earl grey teabag, the strong scent of bergamot evokes the role a cup of tea plays in my daily life: it fuels me to do the things I want and need to do.

There's even an element of found objects in the construction of the stop motion. The video was made from the photos taken using some old scripts I had written for after effects.