The Cure

Introduction to The Cure.

Exploring what may be the cause of Isoloneliness through relics of abandonments and voids must conclude a cure. What is it we objects use to escape loneliness? Sex, Technologies, Interactions are some of our utopia’s. This part of the project will explore what we do as humans to evade the feelings we hate. One of my ideas is about one night stands, our cravings for contact, flesh on flesh. Our most primal needs against our primal fears. Those who sanction in relationships, or in wed lock may not feel the same as one who is single. I know that this project will be theoretically complicated, because everyone feels different towards sex, so I am not going to get too technical about this, and just experiment.

My first idea to represent sex is the use of condoms. Condoms are used to prevent things such as STI’s or the creation of life, obviously, you don’t need a sex education, but I want to focus on the prevention of creating another life, another vessel to become infected by Isoloneliness.

I have experimented with condoms by putting objects inside them that don’t necessarily relate to loneliness, but have implications of a negative lifestyle. As condoms are used to ‘capture’ life, I wanted to use them to capture things in life. The things we use as a cure.

Experiment 1; Cigarette Butts

Experiment 2; Pills

Experiment 3; needles

Experiment 4; phone/technologies

Experiment 5; nothingness

Analysis of objects in a condom

I chose objects that I think people turn to when suffering from Isoloneliness, yet I don’t know why I put them in condoms. I could have used the objects in their own context, and feel like that it doesn’t work by putting them in condoms. My focus for this project was to illustrate sex and one night stands as a cure, not other cures. If I am to return to this project, I will extract the objects from the condom and use them in another way.

RISK ASSESMENT; The hypodermic syringe I used was brand new, and free from sharps. A friend who uses insulin provided the needle, and he handled it at all times, including putting it in the condom. It was disposed of in his sharp box carefully and responsibly.