What sparks your joy? What are your most valued belongings? What things would you would save in a fire? Our emotional relationship with our possessions plays a significant role in how we respond to these questions. Through exploring minimalism to maximalism, tidying with KonMari to hoarding – this project follows our powerful reliance on and attachment to our clutter.
'Clutter for Comfort' is a blanket for warmth, security and safety. Inspired by the minimalist lifestyle, this blanket holds pockets for only our essentials. It is a puzzle piece of our personal identity and physical manifestation of our emotional baggage.
Our conflicting decluttering experience is captured using the digital form and language. This website encourages you to consider both your digital and physical clutter.
'Conversations with Clutter' unfolds the lives and stories of our clutter and why we hold on to things, one clutter at a time, one page at a time.
'Clutter for Comfort blanket'; An impractical tangible piece that represents our intangible reliance and relationship to our applied associations and memories to our clutter.
Achievement awards, family photo album, comfort film, guitar capo; Pictured in the pockets show items people have responded and regarded as items they have a sentimental attachment to, and have trouble decluttering.
Phone, loved one's comb, old passport, late father's handmade wallet, laptop, favourite book, fine china, external hard drive; A diverse selection of items featuring the different valued things in people's clutter.
Childhood teddy, birthday card, headphones.
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'Conversations with Clutter' contents page. This publication gives a voice to the inanimate, disposable, lifeless objects we place so much value and importance to.
Publication spread 1; The book is printed in a way that mimics how we experience clutter, its notepad style allows readers to carefully immerse themselves and engage with the content, focusing on one subject at a time, one page at a time.
Publication spread 2; Its large size and portrait design takes from the form and nature of clutter itself, clutter occupies our space, is vivid, awkward, and uncomfortable and difficult to handle.
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