The idea of reimagine/combining objects that are already there to tell something new, and thinking about the care that been put in these objects and what we get out of them.

Care and comfort, through touch and material.

Finding self in objects.
Reflecting yourself on objects.
Attaching memories onto objects.
Attaching memories of people you love/care about.
You make bonds with objects that can't talk back, care and feel without words, taking care of something and getting energy back without a word, only touch.
Sometimes I don't want to be with people but if I have my objects I don't feel so lonely.

A thing like you and me
by Hito Steyerl

Found object in surrealism, how surrealists use found objects.

Isabelle Graw's appropriation and Dedication.

Braiding sweet grass.
Epiphany in the beans:
it came to me while picking
beans, the secret of happiness.
in this chapter she talks about how her garden loves her and she loves her garden. for many people the idea of sorting that cant talk loving you back is difficult to understand. at least that is what i partly get out of the text.
Robin Wall Kimmerer sees her garden as a mother and the way she talks about her garden in the first part of the chapter almost makes me think of some sort of fantasies story.
while reading this text it made me think: why would you have to proof love from objects? Robin Wall Kimmerer talks about her relationship with her garden as a sacred bond, it goes two ways she takes care of her garden she put love and effort into it and it gives it back, gives her energy food and so much more. isnt that care and being loved?
the relation between object and person is like that i think, i dont need to hear my objects say i love you i just know if i put care in them they give it back. words are also just tools but words are just words, its simple to say things you dont meen then do things you dont meen.

Senses: like touch and even smell are very in portend in my work. Texture of my work.

its like a therapeutic progress /therapeutic toych/
collecting
talking to others about collecting or what their
relationship is with objects.

Make it relatable to others and not only yourself:

llook into artist:
erik alkema
bas kosters


Mike Bourscheid
Sands Murray Wassink

playfullness.

Thinks to read:
1. Speaking of Monsters:
A Teratological Anthology
2. The Uncanny - Mike Kelley
3. POWERS OF HORROR -
JULIA KRISTEVA
4.Op aarde schitteren we even (On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous)
Boek van Ocean Vuong
5.Metaphors we live by- George Lakoff and Mark Johnson.
6.revolutionary optimism.
7.After the End
Representations of Post-Apocalypse. by James Berger
8.furious feminisms- alternate routes on madma
9. sara ahmed -Queer Phenomenology
10. hil malatino - trans care

Ro Smit explores queerness, forms of care, and the conections between human and objects and objects and each other through a mix of found and made materials.
It's very important for them to create work through materially transformative acts that they connect with their queer identity. They step out of the straight line of human and object lifespans, taking on a different lifespan for material. In these works they explore motions of destructive care: A form of care that harms but is better than the alternative.

what is a monster (to me)
monster is somting inbetween and ever changing.
someting other, not nagitive.