Back to sketching

I have to admit that I went to a bit of a roadblock with regards to the piece concept. I wanted to find a significant reference or connection between the piece and the object I wanted to use and I got a bit stuck rationalizing how a dream cacher or case would work with a compact disk. So I went back to the drawing board and started mind mapping my objects and further more, expand the elements by adding in similar things with the CD.

What I ended up with are a batch of obsolete audio materials: the vinyl, cassette and the CD. All of which contain audio files and data no longer needed and are old to me. Both were once significant tools to store data and are no, nothing more than just trash. In some way, I wanted to reflect the obsolescence of these things and at the same time communicate their purpose before. Essentially they store data in analog or digital form. They are tangible things of software and information that were once important. Now their purpose of storing is no longer efficient and up to date, and they are now pretty much just trash. So why not assemble them together to store something once again, why not make them a waste basket of storing similar "obsolete"/junk stuff.

Below is just a mind map of how I came up with the idea and a few sketches of how I plan to do it.




On the side,the readings helped me a lot in getting the craft and ideas working. I was pretty much focused on looking at examples on the web, research online and just spending lots of time in the computer that I forgot the purpose of the project: to start going back to basics and working with the hands and the mind, rather than all the references and information that goes with it( stuff that are nonetheless, important, but just TOOLS to get the job done).