Discarded Intimacy

Discarded Intimacy came out of an interest in fabric and clothes and the shocking waste that is so apparent in London. Scarves, coats, shoes, trousers and shirts lay side by side with empty cans, cold chips and cigarette butts. My project aims at re-counting each piece of clothing as a story in itself, building a database out of forensic evidence and analysis, whether stains or strains, hair or nail, food or blood.  The intimacy of those items will be revealed and made available in a new display, inviting touch where eyes looked in disgust and repulsion. Clothes are reclaiming their tactile dimension over the visual.