Rough Guide Task, homework.

Rough Guide theory task.

1. Choose an object/product from a market stall or second-hand shop or found object from the area you are exploring for the Rough Guide.

2. Choose an object/image /product from a shop, department store, boutique

3. Choose an object/sculpture/painting/artwork/image from a museum or gallery
For each of these:
DESCRIBE the objects/images/items – what they look like, what the are made of etc..
List Keywords that come to mind – e.g. what associations arise from looking at the items? What do think about when you see this object?
Now consider the CONTEXT within your area and how these might differ if they were shown in another context e.g. one of the other situations, art gallery, market stall, department store etc..

1. I chose objects that I found on the street while doing my research and exploring the area. Among the found objects are rocks, stones, plants, jewelry, leather, energy drink cane.
Object description:
Stone 1: middle size; consists of multiple stones of a smaller size; cold; sharp; masculine; brown; grey; yellow; sandy; black; thick; heavy. In my sketchbook it is named Asteroid.

Stone 2: small; smooth; simple; with 2 stripes in the middle of it’s body, has different colors on both sides; touchable; feminine; oval; warm; named Striped Boat.
Leather: the object has a shape of a butterfly, 5 bid with metal rings and 4 smaller size on both sides. I think it was decoration for denim skirt or jeans. It is soft; flat; thin; brown; metal on leather brings masculine taste to it, but the shape of it is quit feminine. Named 5-eye Butterfly.
Jewelry: chain necklace or belt with colorful triangles with smooth edges. Made of metal; long; cold; old; musical. Named Calendar.

Energy Drink: silver; blue; black; Da Vinci; sharp; cold, but gets warm in your hands; flat; empty; happy. Named Bullet Proof Necklace.

Plants: 2 small brown plants ready to go to the ground to give a birth to something new. Small; cute; soft; oval; shaved; brown colors; fragile; live. Named Bullets.

I showed found objects in my sketchbook and presented them like museum objects of our time. Maybe one day things like Energy Drink cane will tell next generation about our habits, every day life, even biology, technology and product design.

2. For the second task I chose scarf that I bought in the small textile shop on Brick Lane. It was very colorful with yellow, green, pink, blue, red stripes, dots and flower ornaments. It is a scarf that you would wear at summer time on the beach, in the park. It has bright and positive mood, bust most importantly, I like it and it cost only one pound. Cheap labor in India.
Indian man who worked in this store let me photograph him and the shop and we had a nice chat. He and his wife were working in this area for a few years. They run this shop together and bring most of the fabrics from India.

3. I made a stop at Whitechapel Gallery. I’ve never been there before. It had an exhibition taken place, that was named:
Goshka Macuga: The Nature of the Beast

‘ Nature of the Beast is like the eye of a storm.’ 
 – Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 31 March 2009



London-based Polish artist Goshka Macuga is widely acclaimed for her sculptural installations of historic objects and documents. Creating complex networks of reference they are poignant reminders of the profound relation between aesthetics and politics. For this, the first in a series of year-long artists’ commissions, Macuga has conceived a unique venue for public gatherings which references a key moment in the Whitechapel Gallery’s history. In 1939 the Gallery hosted Picasso’s Guernica, an outcry against Fascist war atrocities, to drum up support for the Republican forces fighting in Spain. 

In 1955 Nelson Rockefeller commissioned a life- size tapestry of Picasso’s painting. Some thirty years later this was lent to the United Nations Headquarters in New York where it has hung ever since outside the Security Council. Offered as a deterrent to war, in 2003 the tapestry was covered by a blue curtain in front of which Colin Powell delivered his fateful speech on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. 

The room has been designed to accommodate meetings, discussions and debates around a central table, with Guernica once again as a backdrop.
The exhibition told a tale behind the tapestry, which I considered as an object for this task. It was such a masterpiece that it is better to present it alone, with no other objects around.