Amy Final

For my final project I chose to work with a variety of kitchen appliances and objects that have seemingly no connection with the kitchen or any utilitarian uses in general. Everything we do in the kitchen has some end goal, some purpose, a use. I wanted to toy with the concept of usefulness and play. In this video, objects such as a skillet, a mixing bowl, a serving spoon, and a cheese grater are taken and played with in ways that are meant to seem either contrary or simply useless. Almost all of the footage shows some manipulation of the materials by an unknown outside performer, this is at once an attempt to give the objects a life of their own and remove at least some of the control that is implied when one manipulates objects. The use of rain on a windshield and the sound of water being played in are used to show the lack of control and purpose that I have attempted to portray with the kitchen related objects. Though rain itself obviously has a purpose, the movement of the rain on the windshield and the sound of playing in a puddle are meant to show how very useful things can be. at times, simply for play.