Clutter

In looking at alternative engagements within the domestic domain, i've really been inspired by the way things can be organised and find a path to the space they are occupying. Objects are subject to various practises of dispersal, divestment and displacement in the gaps between consumption and acquisition, use and their eventual disposal or lack of as the case may be. They could be thought of as a gluttonous metaphor for excessive consumption. Clutter needs to be understood not merely as the underside of storage but also as part of an ordering of the home and identity that follows the traces left behind by the dynamic of storage. Storage and consumption are processes of living with things without being stored or displayed, but just put down, piled up around the paths of daily routine, where things fall out of use and out of awareness.

Clutter is not simply that which accumulates as a result of lack of shelving or cupboard space but is better understood as an almost inevitable result of consumption. These materialities and ecologies create yet disrupt order, thus marking the gap between presence and absence. As things mark the trails of peoples lives through the home, they become traces of peoples lives.