jars/various paper ephemera

shelf/cabinet wall with items/labels after a small group of people came in and moved things around...

more family pictures

CD design from GD1 (needs re-working)

promotional poster:

front/back cover:

sleeve/lyrics:

feedback thus far (organization for my own sanity) :

-the fact that some of the compartments are spray painted may not be a bad thing but it stops the eye (try dipping in paint instead)
-looks like it was only painted once/paint outside edges and on glass...is this important?
-try using screws instead of nails or liquid nails and clamps/ nails showing is a problem
-find way to support it from back  to keep it from falling over (blocks of wood...multiple nails)
-use different ways to attach shelves (door hinges, etc.)
-it looks as if it is stable out of necessity but does it need to be visually stable (try hanging things as well)
-"is your work theatrical?" look at theater set designs
-manufactured labels are good. do they all have to look the same? is the uniformity in repetition important?
-the repeated act of stuffing fabric into things (in previous and current works) seems like something important is supposed to be taking place but you havn't figured it out yet...
-what are memories? are they fast/slow/tiny/etc.?  (read BOLTANSKI)
-SELL YOUR WORK IN 3 SENTENCES.
-WHY ARE YOU COLLECTING?




"All material has history." -R. Rauschenberg

more shelves, more things.
tins, photos, double-ended clips, brushes, jars, dead things (hornets, lizard, mouse), adverbs, gloves.

clockwise:  Gilbert Wells (grandpa), Derrick Wells (dad), Andrew Wells (uncle), Anne Champagne (aunt), Larry Pfaff (great-grandpa)

studio

second semester thus far. looking at the idea of collecting/archiving/storing and why people collect objects. 

trying to read nausea by sartre...

looking at louise nevelson, boltanski, annette messager, various anthropologist's collections, collections of Peter the Great.

collecting shelves, drawers, small boxes (cigar boxes, jewelry boxes), mason jars, doll parts, mugs, string, and adverbs.  the things that i havn't received as donations from people, i've gotten from Habitat for Humanity. 

If you have any things/collections of things that you've been holding on to and would be willing to donate, let me know! for example, one person gave me an old candy jar, another gave me a dead, petrified mouse, someone is sending me old photos in the mail, i have another person who is donating teeth that her father (an orthodontist) has held on to and old eye-glasses of her grandparents'.  

my email is emily.wells@coker.edu

catalog of collected items

beginnings of "monster shelf"....not actually what it's called....its just going to be huge.