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 [...]

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i actually found this jumper yesterday, but I did not dare pick it up because tehre was a woman standing right next to it. I thought it must be her daughter’s that was just left there for a bit while the daughter’s off somewhere. However, the day after (in teh afternoon!) it was still there. [...]

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Near the house I saw an interesting shape lying on the ground. It looks like fabric. But on a closer look I found that it was a hankerchief. Hmm.. Can be considered clothes? Well.. some people wear hankerchief type stuff on their necks right? I guess it could be depending on how you use it. [...]

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I was walking home pretty late from New Cross Gate station after seeing a gig in Barbican and saw this pink baby sock. Soaking wet lying on the pavement near St Donatt’s bus stop. Had my trusty Canon so I took a picture with the powerful flash that makes everything go flat. Picked it up [...]

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I needed to see a different part of the city for this project and i decided to join my friend on her walk around the docklands for her project about the area and the community. It a very very nice day and a very nice walk, even though I had a shitty morning because I [...]

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When my friend asked me whether I wanted to walk through the park with animals to get to the DLR station from Canary Wharf, I thought she was talking about regular park animals. You know, ducks, doves, geese, and the like. But this place is amazing! A real farm in the middle of London! Well.. [...]

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I know this is cheating a bit, but it was a cold day and I was really really tired. I noticed this shoe thrown on the front lawn of the house I’m sharing with four other very lovely people about a month ago, but I thought that this did not count. But I thought about [...]

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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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