Boxes

- Boxes as a way of rooming personal/sentimental / found artefacts and objects
- Collectting objects that can be easily disregarded as unimportant or disposable but can still have importance about the to; transforming objects resulting in giving them status.

i.e Shopping lists; Reciepts; notes; train tickets; letters; birthday cards...

- Deciding whether the boxes are open or closed

o·pen
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(pn)
adj.
1.
a. Affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed.
b. Affording unobstructed passage or view: open waters; the open countryside.
2.
a. Having no protecting or concealing cover: an open wound; an open sports car.
b. Completely obvious; blatant: open disregard of the law.
c. Carried on in full view: open warfare; open family strife.
d. Sports Not closely defended by an opponent: an open receiver.
3.
a. Not sealed or tied: an open package.
b. Spread out; unfolded: an open book.
4. Having interspersed gaps, spaces, or intervals: open ranks; an open weave.
5.
a. Accessible to all; unrestricted as to participants: an open competition.
b. Free from limitations, boundaries, or restrictions: open registration.


closed
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(klzd)
adj.
1. Having boundaries; enclosed: a closed corridor between the two buildings.
2. Blocked or barred to passage or entry: a closed port.
3. Explicitly limited; restricted: closed membership.
4. Self-contained or self-sufficient: a closed relationship.
5. Barred to the public; conducted in secrecy: a closed session of the judiciary committee.


- Different meanings have different effects on viewer


- Looking back at boxes from level one as well as the lettering on canvas; think about incorporating this method into the boxes; pins etc time consuming high level of importance is reflected yet content throws viewer.

- Possible materials for boxes; wood; metal; cardboard; fabric - combinations

- Like the way how boxes have many sides like diverse traits in personality
- Looking at different sorts of boxes; shoe boxes; old tins and snuff boxes (Male luxuries; going back to War; history) Sewing boxes (typically feminine) Jewellry boxes (precious) Treasure chests; trinket boxes; Boxing things up to move house (another year at uni) Boxing up (emotions)...


Artists:

Joseph Cornell; Lucas Samaras..