What Kinds of Objects Might You Make?
For The Things We Hold In Our Hands project
What kinds of objects might you make for The Things We Hold In Our Hands Participatory Project?
All kinds of objects.
We don’t want to be prescriptive or to limit your imagination.
We just ask that in some way or another, the artwork can be held in a hand.
You can use any material (though please bear in mind artworks will be sent in the post so should not be too fragile, and should not be made from materials which will decompose).
If you have a current creative practice, your artwork might of course relate to that in some way. You might even have something in your studio you would like to send; a test piece, a maquette, a small sample. If you work large, you may want to experiment with how your usual work can be scaled down, or explore an element of.
If you don’t have a current creative practise then perhaps this is an opportunity for you to try out new materials or new ways of working. Use the small scale to experiment and explore.
You might like to think carefully about how the hand holds an object, both when it holds the object but also as it makes the object…
The artwork you make may respond anatomically to the hand… or it may respond metaphorically to what you feel you hold in your hand… what you would like to hold in your hand.
Or you might like to think about scale - what do you wish you could hold in your hand, if you could scale up or down?
You might want to respond to poetry or literature…
You might want to make an emotion real…
You might want to trigger memory… or describe hopes for the future…
The artwork might be autobiographical or about themes common to us all…
The word “object” can be interpreted any way you like. The artwork you make might be representational or abstract, it might be a found object which has been modified in some way, or it might even be a book…
We hope you take the opportunity to explore.