When I was at school and was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, Art Installation Curator was certainly not a career would have professed to be interested in, that’s for sure!
If someone had suggested it as a possibility, I would have had no idea of what it was! And to be honest, up until recently I’d never heard of such a thing, and would never have thought it might be a thing I may do.
But life does odd things at times, and here I am, the Curator of the Redbanks Rust and Found Art Installation! It may be a little visited site, this Art Installation, but there is certainly much traffic driving past it every day. And if I were to actually promote it and have a sign up indicating what it is that traffic is driving past, that may assist in visitor numbers …
In the photo below are the goodies found along the road when I stopped on my way to Gawler to check out something I’d noticed previously on an earlier drive to Gawler from my place. They’re not on display yet, but oh my, they will be sometime soon!
So yes, I’m enjoying the gatherng of interesting (to me anyway!) items and then thinking about them, and putting them on display!
The title of Art Installation Curator feels so much like my kind of thing now, and remembering my love of collecting unicorns, perhaps this is actually something in my DNA. I certainly remember when we had to sell off my father’s things from his big shed attached to his stables, when he had to move to an aged care facility.
He had things going back a long way back in time … and my mother had her own issues regarding keeping things too as my brother and I discovered when we had to organize all of her items that made up her estate when she passed away earlier this year. My mother’s items were kept in a much neater way than my father’s items had been, but there were still many old items in her cupboards and drawers that had to be disposed of, or kept as appropriate in the clearing out of her things, from her home.
So with my parents being fond of keeping things, is it any wonder I’m so much enjoying the finding and keeping of these various metal things, most of which are iron and rusty?! I’m not hiding my interest (or was that obsession?), with all of the items on display at this Art Installation!
With more than 700 individual items as a part of this display, I’m hardly in a position to criticize anyone who likes to hold onto things from their past, am I? I would actually love to have these items counted to find how close I am to the correct number.
There may be a way of having students come along and do this for me. I’ll look into that after this Festive season is over, and students are back at their relevants schools.I am far more of a words kind of person, rather than a numbers person!
So that will take some time before it will happen, but you can bet my attention will continue to be snared by rusty treasures! Curator, collector, crazy? Maybe all three! But I’m enjoying myself, and that’s important in life, to do the things you enjoy doing!
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 