Gen Harrison
FEEDING OFF THE SCRAPS, SHARING THE SPOILS
My contribution to the 2020 100 Days Project Scotland was ‘feeding off the scraps, sharing the spoils’. I wanted to use the project to connect with people physically whilst in a time of enforced isolation. It also helped to reduce the hoard of ‘keep it just in case’.
I took inspiration from Kurt Schwitters and H N Werkman and their approaches to adversity productions… use what you have, make what you can with what you know best. As with Robert Rauschenberg, the make-do and re-use was often the only solution. There was on homage to On Kawara here too.
Each day or so, I made non-identical twin postcards, which were repurposed from scraps, offcuts and many of the unresolved ideas I have gathered over the years. The limited time managed the overthinking, and I enjoyed the simplicity of responding to and with the materials. I garnered the help of my ‘commercially obsolete assistants’ Letraset, rubber stamp and typewriter to realise the final pieces.
They are what they are… that is enough. This is a liberation of sorts for me. One card I kept and the other I posted out to friends or family.
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