Today, I found an arteest, Simon Evans who has created some very interesting work that involves all the shinanigains (objects) in his life, literally! My eye was immediately drawn to his work "Everything I Have" probably because of the manner in which he has displayed every single shinanigain (object) he owns. Documented with care, love, precision, like an archive of his life, he provides me with this:
About the work, I found the following quote by "an expert from the show's press release" (not name worthy?!)
"Simon Evans’ delicate text-based works are collaged and assembled from prosaic materials including found paper, scotch tape, pencil shavings, colored pencil and white out. They describe a world poised between two poles of earnestness and irony. With his anxieties laid bare and his wry brand of melancholy, Evans presents us with a veritable laundry list of drawings that take the form of diagrams, charts, maps, lexicons, diary entries, inventories, cosmologies and epistolary entreaties that plunge the viewer into alternate states of pathos and hope"
How very precise and important, I love how he has reacted to the shinanigains (objects) that have made up his life, they are laid out bare for us all to see and it just seems really honest, what could be more honest and realistic than displaying everything you own? I would try it, but patience is not my virtue. The way he has displayed them though reminds me of how I have started to display my paper tabs. Maybe a systematic approach like this gives each item time to be important and seperate from the other, and maybe a level or order and organisation can make things seperate from the chaos. Afterall, time and care have been taken to collect them it is only right that we retain a sense of calm?
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