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they sit in a specific location always when I take them off. So something inside
the box would reflect how you wear things or why you wear things. It has been
through a couple of different versions. The first piece was a modular piece that
if you wanted to stop wearing something but it was hard to just take it off and go
and put it away so you could gradually deconstruct the piece and put it away a
section at a time. The significance of these pieces they are often related to many
memories. Each module of the piece was connected to a photograph, something
to do with that piece or some memory associated with that piece. The box
displays these photographs so long as you kept wearing each module but as you
started to put pieces of it away or leave them in the box the photos will fade
away gradually to reflect that move or that change in your habit. Another piece
actually took a physical record of times and dates – a very clinical, hard-nosed
approach – so you could look at your diary of when you wore these pieces or
didn’t. The third piece which is the piece that is in the exhibition was kind of a
more abstract piece. It is a very slow and gradual animation that builds over
time to display more and more light over time so the longer you wear
something, the longer it is away, the longer it is on your person the more
important it is so the box reflects this by glowing more and more so the longer
you wear something the brighter the glow from the jewellery box. If you put it
away for a long time the animation gradually blurs and fades and disappears.
So if you wear something like a bracelet that there is a predictable pattern it will
glow to a certain degree and go back down in a steady pattern so if your pattern
changes so does the light coming from the box.
Remember to Forget?
It is a very simple piece – it is not very complicated technology in any way,
shape or form. It is done with Director and Processing and at the minute is
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