The inspiration for this miniature comes from that feeling of light changing at the end of summer and reminiscing on back-to-school days living in a university town.
I’ve always found the passage of time in a laundromat very fascinating. Thinking about what people do to occupy themselves, the things they bring, the things they leave, the company they may encounter.
With less and less people using laundromats, and more owning their own washing machine, this miniature functions both as a time capsule of a world past as well as a world reimagined from the repurposed materials used to create it.
I see it as A portal created with dental floss containers, makeup blender packaging, and free sample face lotion tubes.
List of items repurposed:
-Hadscha purse box for shell and interior colors
-Dutch tax authority filing booklet with window protection corks for flooring
-dental floss container for door and interior of washing machines
-Neoretin face lotion sample tube for Tide laundry detergent bottle and cap
-Broken iPhone charger for cable plugged into wall
-Cava wire cork holder for laundry basket
-Makeup blender packaging for chairs with support from straws
-Painted wood for iphone with spent twinkle light cable for cord
-Kleenex box cut, painted, and glued for wood paneling
-Kleexnex box cut, painted, and sewn for bent window blinds
-Ariel box interior designs for wall signage
-Cloth purse holder cut and sewn for laundry sack
-Old clothes and used rags for laundry
-Matchbox with tissue paper for garbage
-Scrap of paper glued and painted for Starbucks cup in garbage
