collection (1999) display of 24 polaroids, labelled and mounted with t-pins 23" x 35"
notes

created for Photo 201, intro to Photography

This was a conceptual step aimed at reducing meaning. Physical forms ranging from trash to books to human body parts are reduced first to a photographic surrogate, and then all are displayed in a grid with the label of "object." The display method of pinning them all to a board with T-pins, used in the collecting of biological specimens, furthered this idea of a collection, of a common ground found only after the imposition of a uniform format, at the loss of each object's individual nature and meaning. I use the term equalization for this kind of categorical, classificatory reduction. We perform this equalization by overemphasizing one trait at the expense of others.