Fuck flickr...

Class.

It's shit.











Really bad shots for a really bad project.

And a bad conceptual word thing to accompany them:

“Spoons” whether as the physical object or the physical action, were the theme and motive of our photos. We took photos that depicted both the normal and abnormal uses of spoons and anything in relation to the spoon.

I started off taking literal images of spoons and tried to capture spoons, the beauty of them. The shiny reflective metallic objects that we seem to ignore as we use them and acknowledge them subconsciously.

After taking images of the literal images, I thought a little deeper. An image of a spoon does not technically have to have a spoon in it. I drew a “light” drawing of a spoon and it represented my affection for spoons. The delicate and smooth trails of light similar to the smooth surface and delicate mirror finishes on many spoons.

Then in the recent week, I thought of several concepts, the shape of the spoon, the pun of a spoon and how the spoon can be used for other purposes than just as a utensil for food. The photographs each represent the spoon in their different “forms”. The ladle, a large version of a spoon some would say. The shadow of the spoon, that spoons are just shapes and objects that have that similar pattern that we can all distinguish. The mirror spoon, upon closer inspection, a spoon can have more than one use and finally, a bowlful of spoons. Ironically that the spoon is inside the bowl, as if it were the food to be eaten.

The spoon is a manmade object, and like every other object within modern day society, there is a deep and long history or reason to why they are the way they are. We only acknowledge them subconsciously as we use them daily, automatically taking the required utensils to eat or prepare a meal. Do we tell ourselves that we need the spoon? Or do we automatically process the thought, similar to driving a car. It funnily enough sometimes seems that in our lives “there is no spoon”.

/timbo400