{"id":574,"date":"2017-11-15T00:25:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T05:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/?p=574"},"modified":"2017-11-28T21:10:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T02:10:03","slug":"my-junk-taste-like-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rickasinikadour.com\/main\/art\/my-junk-taste-like-flowers","title":{"rendered":"My Junk Taste Like Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In early 2012, I had been thinking about objects and particularly why objects matter and why we collect the stuff we do. Around that time, I interviewed Katharine Mulherin at her gallery on Queen West in Toronto. I learned we share an interest in collecting seemingly random objects, things that are not quite art, not really design, but objects from the past whose shape, form, or colour appeals to our senses or the moment. I think of these objects as artifacts of someone else\u2019s personal history that I appropriate into the grand narrative of an unwritten memoir. My partners call these objects junk.<\/p>\n

I asked Katharine why she collects the things she does. \u201cOh, I don\u2019t know,\u201d she responded initially and then paused and said, \u201cJoy. I collect things because they bring me joy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The series \u201cMy Junk Taste Like Flowers\u201d is both a documentation of objects and an expression of joy about them. This series is photographs of sculptures made with my junk which are then venerated with flowers. Arranging my junk was like restacking and reordering memories. The whole was other than the sum of its parts.<\/p>\n

MANIFESTATION<\/h2>\n

\u201cMy Junk Taste Like Flowers\u201d is manifested as an installation, a series of colour instant photographs, and an artist book.<\/p>\n

Altar to My Junk<\/em><\/h2>\n

Altar to My Junk<\/em> is a variable installation of found and plaster objects with silk flowers on a raised surface. About Altar Making<\/a><\/p>\n

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Altar to My Junk<\/p><\/div>\n

COLOUR INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHS<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I documented each of these sculptures using a Polaroid 360 Land Camera and Fujifilm FP-100c to make a colour instant photograph in editions of three, except for the titular piece, My Junk Taste Like Flowers<\/em>, which is an edition of 100 and released as an artist book.<\/p>\n\n\t\t