so for the past year or so i have been toying around with those little plastic bags with the extra button in them that you get with new clothes. i started to find them around the house and realized that many of these buttons no longer had an owner. the jacket, sweater or pair pants they belonged to had long ago been worn out, given away, donated or lost. but the button was still preserved like new in this little plastic bag waiting to be useful someday.
the buttons are funny to me. they are objects that we don’t think about much but we all have somewhere in a drawer or box or under our bed if we’ve ever bought something new that had buttons. but of course as receipts these objects are evidence of consumption and the ability to have bought the item represented by the button. it represents a certain status.
the buttons are not a fully fleshed out idea or image yet. i made a few dry-point etchings of the buttons to see if the idea would translate the way the receipts did.
ive been trying to make button-bag images using solar plate printing also and i like them because the images are more photographic but now something else is missing with too much of the evidence of the hand removed. they are funny little objects to collect. so im still collecting and working on them.
