For this assignment we where instructed to take our word (tiny) and go out onto the line and create three different collections based on it. Then we where to create a three dimensional installation in the Cohen studio of one of our three collections. More information on the assignment can be found HERE!

For my first collection I decided to use photography as my means of collecting. For this collection I focused on the tiny’s of the natural world. These photos where all taken with the same zoom and focal point (55mm plus 13mm extension). See examples bellow! Additional images can be found here!

THESE IMAGES WHERE TAKEN WITH “ALL OF THE PIXELS” CLICK ON THEM TO OPEN THEM UP IN A NEW TAB, THEN CLICK AGAIN TO ZOOM!! There is a lot to see in these images and it is really worth taking the time to blow them up!

Next I decided to make a collection of the Tiny’s of the man made world. Again, I decided to use photography as my means of collecting and took them with the same zoom and focal point (55mm plus 13mm extension).

See examples bellow! Additional images can be found here!

THESE IMAGES WHERE TAKEN WITH “ALL OF THE PIXELS” CLICK ON THEM TO OPEN THEM UP IN A NEW TAB, THEN CLICK AGAIN TO ZOOM!! There is a lot to see in these images and it is really worth taking the time to blow them up!

Lastly, for my installation, I decided to select a small glass vial, and collect anything that i could fit inside it. This turned into a slightly interesting task because it was teetering between pouring snowing and hailing while I was trying to collect my objects. I did manage, however, to collect a wide assortment of both natural and man made objects from the line. I had decided that i was going to limit myself to 60 vials (the number of corks I had). After bottling and corking each object, I sealed them with wax and stamped each seal with a number, one through sixty. I then created a list of the contents of each vial and set up my installation!

1. Water from puddle
2. Water from creek
3. White straw, two red lines
4. Red straw, broken
5. Pen part, mechanical
6. Pen part, front
7. Three small seeds
8. Stick with pointy things
9. Small leaf with fuzz
10. Crumbling dried leaf
11. Orange peel shaped like africa
12. Small rock
13. Larger rock
14. Lower portion of blue dum-dum wraper
15. Foil gum wrapper, unknown flavor
16. White orbit gum wrapper
17. Green crumpled foil
18. Small piece of foil
19. Blue gum, chewed
20. Tan gum, chewed, with debris embedded
21. Green gum, chewed, with debris embedded
22. Small mint wrapper
23. Halls wrapper
24. Yellow Tootsie roll wrapper
25. Blue Tootsie roll wrapper
26. Yellow Staurburst wrapper
27. Brown/green Laffy Taffy Wrapper
28. Metallic candy wrapper, peeled
29. Top of Nerds box
30. Part of Reeses wrapper
31. Corner of fruit snacks wrapper
32. “Good source of PROTEIN”
33. Part of yogurt lid
34. Duck Sauce packet
35. Lolly pop stick
36. Popsicle stick with joke “What do lawyers wear to court?”
37. Popsicle stick with punchline “Lawsuits”
38. Yellow cigarette butt
39. Tan cigarette butt
40. White cigarette butt
41. White cigarette mouthpiece
42. Black cigarette mouthpiece with part of cigarette
43. Cigar wrapper
44. Top of cigar packaging
45. Small green zipper bag
46. Losing scratch ticket
47. Unknown plastic material
48. Part of plastic bottle cap
49. Quarter of plastic fork
50. Half of plastic knife
51. Soda tab
52. Part of mirror
53. Unknown material
54. Reflective tape
55. Nail
56. Black plastic
57. Short ceramic rod
58. Shorter wire insulation
59. Blue yarn
60. Circular blue ribbon