fortune totems

 
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Fortune Totems

A sculptural exercise in making gifts for loved ones. Each piece was created with individually written advice, intended to be broken in a moment of need for the gift receiver.

 
 

Sculpture

Independently made

Skills:
Critical & Expressive Prototyping

 
 

Premise

What does it mean to make something truly handmade? How do you extend your relationship to have impromptu meanings when you’re apart?

 
 
 
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Reading List

 

Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
Jane Bennett

The Readymade and the Double
Mike Kelley

Realist Magic— Objects, Ontology, Causality
Timothy Morton