Ball History

So as I am a dog walker I have been coming across quite a few balls

So I was thinking about piercing them all together and making a type of abstract but when I was cleaning them and sorting them out I noticed that they started to resonate different characteristics of the way they’ve been chewed and destroyed.

because I’ve been working with dogs so many years I can see the dogs that have done it I can see the border collie and the kelpie and the staffies that have annihilated the balls.

So with one of the found objects I found it looks like a tool box of some sort or and has a lot of attachments to it and I’m not sure whether to completely wipe them or use that to my advantage so I put the balls and this box together which does look a lot like a medicine cabinet and or display cabinet.

So as an experiment I put the balls on each of the attachments in it’s in the cabinet and I noticed there was a bit of a story or narrative starting to form so what I’m thinking of doing is looking into finding someone that can write a beautiful calligraphy writing such as the old history books like Darwin collected plant samples in animal samples and will always write a tiny little word underneath them like #lorikeet

I have definitely been spiralling on this idea I do like it I’ve also thought about other things that I could do such as instead of having dogs names I could have the workers name on who made the plastic ball, such as an Asian name and the province that they come from, but due to time there’s just no way I can do that and I don’t think it connects with the fact that they’re chewed in all different ways I think I have to leave that one alone for another time.

Instead of that I would put Barry the boxer under one ball and thunder the staffy under another and start to bring them to life.

the other idea that’s developing around this one is that I actually photograph each ball in a lightbox separately with the titles of Daisy they’re cavoodle and Buster the boxer and then put it into a typology so I might talk to my photography teach you about this.

But getting back onto the theme of assemblages I am quite excited about the concept of this so I think I might make the box stark white or I’ll look into museums and just see what type of colours that they use but according to my 331 subject everything is white the white cube haha.

Assemble it and photograph it.