Taken by Stacie Cavell Griffiths at the Usher and Collection
Today we finalised our performance aspects of the piece. We all will be performing separately throughout the garden, amongst the items we have found. Michael will be sat with all the items of clothing and categorising them into colour, item and size. Rachel will be sat with a big elephant teddy bear we found, hugging it and offering people to come and hug the elephant with her, to represent the loss of childhood and our desire for it to return. Sam will be in a wedding dress hugging a tree. This will represent the other wedding dress that will be empty and alone, on the wooden bench. The will juxtapose each other with Sam hugging the natural material the bench is made of, and the emptiness of the found wedding dress. Steph will be at the start of the gallery, introducing and inviting people in to see the gallery. Offering people umbrellas, maps and mp3’s/headphones and answering any questions anyone might have. I will be walking up and down the stairs amongst the shoes, representing the ware and tear we go through daily, and walking in other peoples shoes, wanting to follow in peoples footsteps and follow on. I will invite people to join me in walking up and down the stairs and to walk amongst the shoes. We also semi-finalised where the items will be in the garden, where we thought they would look most effective. We have decided to hang the umbrellas from a tree with string if possible, and we started to categorise things together. All electronics going together, children’s toys going together, vehicle parts, shoes, clothes etc. All bunched together.