Assignment 01
Collection: Object

You’re tasked to start a collection. This collection should be a group of physical objects or digital files you can acquire. It should have a visual quality you find intriguing. It’s recommended to choose an object that isn’t overly complex. Something simple and ubiquitous. If it’s easily available you will have an easier time collecting and documenting your object.
The goal of this assignment is to visually reveal something you find interesting about your object through your investigation and documentation. As you collect something think about similarities and differences you may identify.
Previous student collections have included: pencil shavings, candy wrappers, car rims, pens, plug outlets, cigar boxes, bottle tops, buttons, receipts, bricks, window frames, etc.

Deliverables for Week 3
Decide which object you’d like to collect and find six examples. Document or render your six objects using three different methods. Find a way to document your object which will reveal something visually interesting. Print your images on 8.5×11 paper, 2 images per page, and insert these into a standard three-ring binder, organized by method of documentation. (You should have 9 sheets total.)
Your documentation method should be chosen based on your object. Some ideas include rubbings to reveal an objects texture, scanning to reveal precise details, or photographing from multiple angles with a high resolution camera. Your documentation should be visually compelling. This means, find beauty in your documentation method. These images will find their way into your final product.

Background
Look through the sample PDF of Peter Buchanan Smith’s book ‘SPECK: A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things’. Notice the documentation of odd and unusual objects, and their visual quality. See that in their documentation they expose a new way to look at the commonplace. The image above is from Stacy Greene’s Lipstick series photographs from the 1990s.

This has been adapted from an assignment given by Julien Bittner at Yale University. Thank you.