Mailboxes- 'Character and personality'
Created by Adam Golledge and Jack Brooks
Theme: Mailboxes
Sub-theme: Character and personality
Theme: Mailboxes
Sub-theme: Character and personality
Mailboxes are a symbol of urbanisation. Out the front of every house, shop or workplace across Australia a mailbox sits. Each mailbox has its own identity. The mailbox once was an integral means for communication in society, each with its own personality and character traits. Yet in today's digital-dependant culture, we discovered the mundane and stock-standard look of the modern mailbox. As 'old vs. new' and 'uniformity and individualism' was brought forward it is clear how the mailbox illustrates Murray’s concepts of amateur photography and everyday aesthetics as well as the need for personality and character. Traveling across Sydney suburbs, inner city and city we discovered the older and more dilapidated the mailbox, the more character and personality it has. We expressed this idea by emphasizing the various colours in the photos of "old" mailboxes and contrasted them with the bleak, bland, uniformity of the 'new-age' mailboxes. The soundtrack by Singleton, helps explore these ideas due to the somber yet passionate tone and lyrics which reminds us, when presented with seemingly unattractive objects or people, by looking deeper we can often find much more interesting inner-beauty expressed through character and personality.
Music By Singleton- 'The One'
Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike
(BY-NC-SA)
Jack Brooks
Adam Golledge
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