UGLY OBJECTS: RICHMOND
PROJECT WITH STUDENTS
The resident, Betty Salera, provided Keaton Freeman with a cardboard box, which she used as storage for her extensive postcard collection. Keaton created a wooden table and box to contain this postcard collection using the original cardboard box as surface embellishment.
The resident, Clara Winston, provided Kathleen Kennedy with a ceramic mug. Kathleen sandblasted the surface of this mug to create the object below.
The resident, Ophelia Dean, provided Gabriel Craig with a handmade lampshade. Below is a short description of how Gabriel Craig approached the project.
The Rehabilitation Project
"The material used to make this brooch originated from a handicraft object made by a prison inmate, which was then gifted to his family. The handicraft object was then given to the artist to reform. The project is made of popsicle sticks, glue, and paint. 18 brooches were made from the object. All of the proceeds from the sales of the brooches will be donated to a drug rehabilitation clinic. In this way the project comes full circle. One kind of rehabilitation helps to facilitate a second kind of rehabilitation, in a poetic gesture of social consciousness."
– Gabriel Craig
