To Give The Mundan

To give the mundane it’s beautiful due.

Provocative beauty

Love of looking

Love for seeing

Love for looking

Love of seeing

Love to look

Love to see

Trivial objects photographed.

Dead tulips, plastic bottles, scouring pads, cups, vases, pots.

Plastic lace tablecloths, peeled lemons, watermelons.

You name it 

The detritus, the debris, the litter, the everything!

Daily lives

Future waste     

We have so much!

You would almost think:

These objects are important!

The objects often feel neglected.

Bought, used, hanging around.

Thrown out!

I give the objects attention.

The attention they deserve.

I make the objects bigger.

More important.

To emphasise our dependency.

Both practical and aesthetic.

Practically in our daily routines.

Aesthetically by their shape and colour.

Witnessing our uncontrolled weakness and love.

For the artificial.

The photos are staged, but not forced.

Ordinary and extraordinary!

What do we see?

With how much attention do we look?

An artwork is a proposal.

An unanswered question.

Even for the maker.

There comes a time when ‘stuff ‘.

Loses its ordinariness.

Acquires different meanings.

Becomes something else.

Bigger, better, more mysterious, abstract!

A play of light and dark.

Colour and texture.

Scale, volumes and voids.

Spaces which can be filled.

With content.

How we find happiness in the multitude of trivial objects.

Nearly drowning in the plastic soup of our existence.

The provocative beauty of tulips and plastic bottles.

Takes us out of our daily drudgery.

Allowing us to celebrate life.

Bob Negryn