Invasion of everything that was restrained
We’ve all had “great ideas,” but mostly, do nothing about them.
In my case, the Tattoo Franchise, the U 30-minute Hairdressing and Nail bar, the Bratz Dolls clothing for real girls, the Mills&Boon novel and hundreds more like them, have all ended up as nothing more than crumpled-up pieces of paper, in a wastepaper basket.
But photographer, Sarah Ramos, believes that those ideas don’t disappear. She explained to Andrew Pulver, in The Guardian “The installation is basically a lot of paper balls hanging in the air. They’re meant to represent ideas that you had but didn’t follow through on: they’re still around, invading your space.
It was very simple to set up. I hung the paper balls up with transparent line then shot the picture. Afterwards, on the computer, I had to remove a couple of bits of string that were visible; but other than that, it’s all as it was.
I shot it in a corner of my studio in Brazil. So the bits of paper represent all my own bad ideas, the projects I never finished – and they are invading my space, for real. But the picture is meant to be about more than my own personal life: it’s about the life that everybody leads.”
She’s right.
