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| Things That Stop The Flow |
After a few weeks of brainlessness, I'm finally participating in the theme challenge at Delightful Aberrations!
This week, one of the prompts was stop.
I worked this into my project, A Strange Pair, which I originally started partly for the challenge and partly for goal #12 (Complete 3 photography projects).
I've been continuing the project, and had planned to post all the images together when I'd finished it, but today I got my hands on the items to take the image above, which is a pairing that comes directly from Daniel Nettle's book, Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature:
"When asked to sort pictures of objects into classes, schizophrenics often depart from those categories most intuitively accessible to the rest of us, such as 'tools' or 'fruit'. One subject put together a bath plug, a padlock, and a circle of red paper 'because all three stop flows or processes'."Since 'stop' was one of the prompts for this week's challenge, it seemed the obvious choice! It works for the prompt, and works for my project, too!
- Nettle, D. (2001). Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature.
Oxford University Press, Oxford
I still have more ideas for A Strange Pair which I haven't photographed yet. It's a real exercise of the mind to figure out these pairings, without them being too obvious or typical!
I loved that quote about the unusual sorting of objects -- very thought provoking. Nice job thinking of a way to illustrate the concept in a photograph!
ReplyDeleteThanks Marcy! That section of the book goes on even further, discussing groupings like a spanner and a screwdriver--put together not because they're tools, but they're silver; clothing items grouped because they 'preserve human modesty' and so on. It's a really fascinating book, but pretty damn hard on the old brain as its non-fiction and sciencey lol
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