I focus a critical lens on the countless objects that fill the average household storage space and how we emotionally depend on those objects as a mass. By examining how we connect with objects as it comes time to throw them away, I aim to show that our dependence on objects goes far beyond the practical. Hoarding exposes our irrational dependence on objects in our soci-ety. Extreme purging, and minimal object lifestyle demonstrate that individ-ual attempts at sparse living do not counter our cultural dependence on huge masses of manmade objects.
For the illustration portion of my thesis I constructed a series of five images that draw on the powerful emotional states that revolve around throwing things away. Fueled by my personal observations from being raised in a hoarding home, I try to break down these emotions into something sym-pathetic, and human. At the same time I expose in the impossibility of living with so many things. My images follow the struggle of need, collection, decay, loss, and finally who we are without the object
So then we come to the fear of losing all these things we’ve worked for. The fourth image shows a woman who clutched uselessly at objects flying out and away from her body. She is distressed at her loss, but there is now way to reclaim the objects that fl
This leads to the next image in which a man sits in a room full to the brim with cylinders. There are no walking paths, and only one small window provides light. He sits pensively over one small cylinder in his hands, seem-ingly unaware of his situation,
My second image depicts a single flower growing out of a raised garden box. Under the box, we see the layers of objects and dirt that have produced only one flower. I needed this image to talk about what we expect to do with our objects once we’ve got the
In the final image the consumer is looking at an object that appears to be gazing at itself in a mirror. The worn down object is lost in space, along with many other distant and ungrounded objects. The reflection is of the original sphere, and we can only
My first piece depicts a flock of attractive red spheres that float over a landscape filled with natural growth. Here I address our first emotional at-tachment to objects, which is instilled by the pursuit of Ideas & our trust in Advertizing. Directly, I
