nana!

So today (17th of november)I travelled up from Waterford to Limerick with my Great Nannys wardrobe!....I discovered the wardrobe the weekend before last when my Dad, Sister and I went for a drive up to the Comeragh Mountians. my Great Grand Mother used to live there years and years ago..and I suppose my Father thought it would be a nice family thing to do..ya know go back to your roots! and it was wonderful to see the old house! and to know where we all came from. When we were looking around I noticed this old cabenet/wardrobe that was in the old sitting room but I didnt pay it that much attenetion. It was only when I came back up to college did my mind start, I was thinking about my project and I felt that I was coming to a dead end with my ideas and then i began to think of the cabenet in the Comeraghs!!
my idea for my project was boxes and having different object and sounds in the boxes. when I thought about this more I relised that it would work much better in an object that we could all relae to! the boxes were cold and indifferent! So then I thought of the cabinet!
Anyway! its happened the wardrobe/cabinet is here up in hte studio, looking at me everyday i go in, wanting me...willing me to do something with it!
I went around limerick collecting cloths from Charity Shops. I got tis idea from Christian Boltanski! He uses people cloths
'cloths that people chose, charished, and loved' and he gave them new life.
i want to encorporate boltanskis idea but have my own twist on it!
When I was putting the cloths into the wardrobe i really didnt like it, to me it just looked plain, it told no story, it didnt intrigue!
I then began to wonder about cloths tags! and instead of the price and the bar code i wanted to put a name or a label of what tha person was...well my interputation of what that person once was e.g a mother, a father, a son, a daughter, a banker, a race car driver, a kisser, a hugger, a walker, a talker...you get the idea!
so i tired that! and it looked wonderful! but then i began to wonder, how am i going to get people to look into the cabinet??...WHY NOT WRITE THE WORDS ON THE OUTSIDE YOU SAY! WHY OLD CHAP THAT SOUNDS JUST SPIFFING!!!!!
so i did!...and it looks just incredible!
this week is all about te outside! so my goal is to crave the words into the wood!
tune in next time follks!