Absent without leave: ivanpope : work

the dustbin of history

Making work using Flickr as the substrate.
The 'original' is here http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivan/sets/72157613112294431/show/

world leaders 2005: the dustbin of history
ivan pope 2008
digital stream

January 30, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

I've been working with documentation of objects in a specific manner that I'm calling The Ivan Pope Museum (working title). I'm documenting all my possessions. Actually, more than possessions, these are my history, my documentation, my collection. I'm photographing all my boxes and containers of clutter that have accumulated around me over the last thirty years and more. For each container I just document every item (more or less) in the box, turning each over and taking a new photo of the next layer, however insignificant.
The idea of this is not to make a record of the objects, or to record information, but to make a record of the collation of life itself over time.
At the moment each container exists as a set in Flickr, which means they can be played as a slideshow. I started off taking all images with my mobile phone, a Nokia N95 8Gb. I've just moved today to experiment with taking stills on a Canon HD video camera. This seems very successful and gives a slightly different quality to the experience, as the camera is now tripod mounted.
This project is in an early stage - I'm going to document everything around me. Obviously all the collections of records that I have. Also all my books, records, cables, clothes etc.
Although this work is presented online in Flickr at this point, it is intended for gallery display, projected, printed and in the original. I can imagine curating shows out of the mass of content alongside the formal presentation of the documentation.

The Ivan Pope Museum

140120092641 by you.
Box 5

Backgammon box

redbox by you.
Red box