Found Objects
"Found objects (sometimes referred to by the French term for found object ‘objet trouvé’) may be put on a shelf and treated as works of art in themselves, as well as providing inspiration for the artist. The sculptor Henry Moore for example collected bones and flints which he seems to have treated as natural sculptures as well as sources for his own work. Found objects may also be modified by the artist and presented as art, either more or less intact as in the dada and surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp’s readymades, or as part of an assemblage." - Tate
Reflection
Throughout my practice I have started using found objects to convey metaphors and narratives either of the object or as illustrations of other concepts. However recently I have been thinking about the term "found Object" and how the exchange of money can interfere with that category. The act of buying the object transfers the ownership of the object onto the buyer making it more of an brought objects then a found object, a deliberate purchase rather then a accidental find. A found object through reason, should be an object or thing that one acquires by chance, that wasn't subject to planning, or the exchange of money or other items in the form of a trade. Is it important the way the object is acquired does it matter to the narrative? or is it the decoding and re-coding of objects that is the important art form.
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