Wirral Metropolitan College

Well I had my meeting with Merseytravel yesterday, it went well they were very helpful and took me to the lost property office.

All the objects are stored in large metal cabinets and the valuable items such as phones that have not been claimed get auctioned off for charity but everything else gets donated to Oxfam after 3 months. I have been given permission to intercept before the Oxfam stage and use to objects for my work and then when finished give it to Oxfam.

I can collect my first of 3 lots of lost property at the start of April.

I want to create a film to go in my installation of lots of people talking about an object they have lost, I want them to describe it, where it came from, what it meant to them, where they may have lost it, did they try to get it back. I want to use 2 cameras to film so I can have a choice of views. I am relying on volunteers it will take no longer than 10 mins very relaxed and only filming head and shoulders. I will publish a blog at the end of this week asking for volunteers on the a-n blog, and email members of my college on art and design courses and hopefully some ex-students can help.

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions please comment . Thanks

I admit my blogging has been more than lax in the past few weeks. This is due mainly in part as my options print work which had to be in this Tuesday took priority, o.k so it’s only 17% of the final mark but considering I hate essays I need every mark I can get.

I am not much further with Merseytravel, I have been put in touch with another person there who I am meeting next Monday.

I am hoping there will be lots of items I can record and take photos of to give me an idea of the kind of objects that get handed in to lost property.

After going to a Sonia Boyce talk I have decided to continue with my use of film and will be recruiting for my film.

Currently if all goes to plan I am hoping to assemble a large quantity of lost items in a space surrounding a film that will be running on a loop. But this could all change once I have been to the lost property depo.

If anyone could suggest artists to look at for my essay, I am considering the subject to be artists who use found objects(but really found or even photographed in situ like Richard Wentworth).