Discarded Intimacy

For my clothes hunt today I walked from Brockley to Lewisham Way all along the big road, sometimes going into small roads and turned right up towards Hilly Fields park. The first part of the walk I did not find anything (as is usually the case, I’ve learned , when you are really looking or [...]

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I did not expect to find any clothes on this outing to North London. However, walking back from Queens Park school I saw the trousers outside a shop. I was with a friend who has never seen me do this before and she was really disgusted by it. I did not do it straight away [...]

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This day was my second attempt at taking at least 2 hours to go for a walk somewhere in London to look for discarded clothes. I decided to go to Lewisham and tried to look for clothes there. I went walking around Lewisham shopping center and all around the residential areas near the shopping center, [...]

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Sitting down on the train going from Brockley to London Bridge I found this hair band. Thouht about using it for my hari that day, but they I thought about my project. Since this is worn on a part of a body (hair), this should qualify as a personal article of clthing, right? So I [...]

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After a really terrible presentation of this project on Monday, I was determined to make this a better project and to discover more clothes. To do that I have decided that I will spend some tme everyday to walk around and look for discarded clothes. Today I decided to go to the most commercial area [...]

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On my way to hand in this project, guess what I found? One pink glove just lying there ready to be taken. Unfortunately I did not have my phone with me, so I just drew the outline of the glove and went to borrow someone’s phone. I don’t even cringe anymore as I pick up [...]

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The night after library hours (at around 22.00) I found these pants hanging from a tree on St. Donatts Road near the college. I couldn’t mark it on the tree but my friend had a great idea of drawing the outline of the shadow on the pavement. And it looked pretty nice in the end. [...]

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This single bra strap was found on the pavement by Goldsmiths Library on New Cross Road on a very sunny Saturday afternoon. Many people were around, and usually I would be too embarassed to take a picture of it and pick it up. Fortunately I had my lovely house mate with me and it’s [...]

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Walking home from Goldsmiths one night towards Brockley I saw a mound of something dark at the base of a tree on the pavement on Millmark Grove. I went over and I saw that it was a jacket. Who would drop a jacket there. I took out my spray paint and marked the outline [...]

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It was weird to see this baby jacket on the railing of the stairs leading up to Greenwich Cutty Sark from Island Gardens. I guess the baby was feeling a bit too hot and the parents took the shirt off and left it? Or forgotten about it? Hmm.. The temperature was a bit high today. [...]

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