I’ve been looking at Joseph Cornell’s work before Christmas as I love his boxes and the fact that he collected stuff. I recently bought Wanderlust, it’s a lovely book on his life and beautiful illustrations of his box constructions and assemblages.
I haven’t read much of it yet but it sounds interesting. His assemblage boxes – Each box is different and is like looking at a mini museum, each with a different theme. I looked at Cornell’s work while I was in college and at the time I was making boxes on constellations and was recommended by a tutor to look at his work. looking more into his work I found out about all the stuff he collected and stored into categorized boxes and thought it was a good idea to revisit his work for the work I am making now. His assemblage boxes are a big influence and gets me thinking on different ways of displaying items in boxes, and decorating. Something about Cornell’s work makes me want to touch them and take things out and look closely at the little vials of stuff he used so many ways of displaying objects.
