Sometimes when I open my emails, I find a lovely email from a student contacting me about my creative work and 'SOMEONE'S RUBBISH' with lots of questions about the photos I make, like why and how I come up with ideas, etc. Recently Kiko contacted me with some questions, and I replied and asked her some questions back, I’m also interested in why they focused on my work, how they found it, what their creative world looks like what kind of work they are making. I find it inspiring, their way of looking in on my work, it also makes me look at mine in new ways. When Kiko emailed back with what they had been working on it made me smile so much.
Kiko came back with this.
In response to your question about what my course entails, we’re just wrapping up our major component 1 which allowed us to research our own personal group of artists and respond to them with a large outcome. I looked at Sophie Calle, Candy Jernigan, and Mary Kelly’s work alongside yours, looking at themes of documentation. This ended up manifesting itself as a wearable coat made out of collected rubbish (the rubbish was personal to the model who wears the coat). I’ve attached photos with the email if you would like to check it out! Thank you so much for your help. I love the idea with your artwork where you mentioned how the work is still forming and the concept is still forming, that’s very interesting to me, especially as someone who sometimes struggles to figure out what my overall thematic “question” is". Kiko Townsley
I love this idea so much, and the fact that the rubbish is the model’s own too, they are wearing a document of their life, a slice of a moment in time in this life.
In was way it’s almost like a portable storage album.
Thank you, Kiko. keep doing what you do. CJ
https://www.chloejuno.com/someones-rubbish
https://nearesttruth.com/episodes/ep-396-chloe-juno-monuments/
Wearable coat made out of collected rubbish (the rubbish was personal to the model who wears the coat). Kiko Townsley