Monday, 12 October 2009

Summer Project.

I won't post anything to do with what I did over summer, a lot of that is already on my first year blog, in all it's barely comprehensible glory. Instead I shall show you the out come of what I finally decided to look at.
As I spent a lot of my time working in the pub, and I've been looking for an excuse to do something with rubbish, and there is a lot of waste in that place, I put two and two together. I asked my co-workers to save what they swept up off the floor when I wasn't there, and when I was there I did it myself. I ended up with a full black bin liner of everything swept up from behind the bar at the end of each shift. There was all manner of surprising objects in there, and I began the mammoth task of separating, washing, and recording all I had collected.
The result was a set of books, a book for each material collected, i.e. glass, plastic, metal.. Each book was laid out differently, using a different method each time. In theory it would have been brilliant! Had I put the time in and got the whole set complete. I ended up with 3 books instead of the desired 5. However, I do feel I got a good deal of what there was to get out of this project. I put more thought than physical work into it, which I feel was necessary to mentally prepare myself after a good two months of vegetating. Overall, it could've been better, but a good effort and concept none the less.







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