Grandma's Sideboard, the shadow of a 1960s ashtray
Grandmas’s Sideboard, the shadow of a 1960’s ashtray depicts the play of light (through an ashtray which sits on a sideboard that once belonged to my partner's Grandma in my living room) on to a blank drawing book.
Starting from the front of the book, the page was turned every 5 seconds and digitally photographed as the light fell upon it’s surface, resulting in 1 minute of documented time.
The book was then dismantled and the resulting documentation printed back onto the book before re-assembling.
Grandma's Sideboard... is part of a planned series which transforms the drawing books from mass-produced objects into individual relics of particular spaces and times they have inhabited.
Other books in the series:
Studio, the shadow of a stained glass window
