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How do people reflect themselves in the objects around them

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- objects that connect to/ reflect their owners
- how environment reflects the person within it
- marked/ damaged objects by people

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The significance of masks, how each displays a personality and reflects its owner.
“The hanging mask felt to me like an amulet: an item to be hung alongside keepsakes, mementoes, and religious objects, to protect the driver from the chaos of the outside world”

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things as an extension of the self

photographs in themselves are alive and will decay over time just like what is in them

slowing down the process of decay through the use of objects and photographs that feel as if they slow down time

mending? why and how

how our relationship changes with an object as it becomes damaged

Why do we destroy things?

What mark do we leave on objects/ marking objects as our own?

What objects represent to us?

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marking objects

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engagement with objects

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decay

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texture

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damage

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perishability

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-Objects have a connection and relationship to the world in that they are in

-Things have significance and value not just in an aesthetic way or use value way

-Objects are not passive but have a relationship with the world around them

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Thing power- the active role of nonhuman materials in public life. Each thing as far as it can be by its own power strives to preserve its own being. The binary between subject and object is dissolved

Thing power is a non human energy that reflects that everything is alive, interconnected and in process.

Objects are alive because of their capacities to make difference in the world, to have effects, to shape the web of interrelationships of which they are a part.

There’s no such thing as ‘objects’ or ‘subjects’ from a certain perspective: they (and we) are never entirely passive or stable; they’re crystallisations of processes, and everything is in process, constantly undergoing transformation, constantly undergoing modification.

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-discourse around the surface as a division between a material and its transformation to have purpose

-artefacts undergoing transformation

-thinking is intrinsically linked to fabrication, the human mind finds comfort in materials and objects

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‘thinking marks the distinction between making and growing’

The difference being that the design of the organism is imported by genes whereas artefacts are composed by human imagination and impressed on the materials.

The difference between boundary and surface- James Gibson. There is a medium, surface and substance between them. The surface of an artefact no longer marks a physical division but a metaphysical division between the domains of mind and matter.

Which comes first making or growing? Every artefact begins with an ideal form that is opposed onto a material, in between the start and end is transformation, a becoming. Rather than turning beginnings into endings the maker brings thing to an end in order to launch things into new beginnings