Author: Em Brooks

W3 Curate / Em Brooks

For W3 Curate I wanted to explore how my jewellery is a consistent player in my day-to-day life. I assembled stills from short clips of myself removing, adding & wearing my jewellery. I was hoping to investigate how the jewellery forms a harmonious relationship with my books, as both come into close, physical contact with one another, and both are of high value to me as an individual. If I am to count the jewellery on my body individually, I have 12 pieces – I then decided to introduce another necklace that I sometimes wear, given to me by my mum, to make up the number 13.

Above: projected onto my wall as if to be an ‘exhibition’

In terms of the actual clip, I feel it is unfinished and perhaps unrepresentative of the other 12 books I had previously included. However, I wanted to avoid a ‘cluttered’ look by including all of the books, so maybe it is arguable that the one book represents all 13 of them…

I’m not entirely happy with the outcome, I feel I can still add a lot more to it and probably will. The editing is so rough!! I was definitely overambitious with this week’s brief but I wanted to try something different to my usual PDF spreads.

Em Brooks – Week two: Catalogue publication

(The publication is supposed to be as double-page spreads, apart from the cover/back cover but it didn’t upload as this!)

During the process of making the Catalogue publication, I found that the openness of the brief was both a blessing and a curse for me; there were so many ways to translate my 3 chosen books, that instead of embracing it I sort of became stumped.

Nevertheless, look out for the small text on some of the pages indicating the different attributes of the novels. If you have any suggestions on how I can further examine my objects, please let me know 🙂

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MeOc2-yoHQZ_C6dOrZ-h9AV6kfLxbqdE/view?usp=sharing

Week 1: Collect – Em Brooks

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OvqlhVl9xwv97qGXexDKfWr29SpqldXl/view?usp=sharing

Using LATCH to organise twenty-six of my books. Particularly focusing on ‘A’ and ‘C’ (alphabetical order and categories).

I chose to arrange the books in alphabetical order by title. This way, if there is a specific book that someone wanted to see exists on the list, they would be able to easily find it.

I decided to use categories to present my ‘Favourite play’, ‘Books that changed my life’ and ‘Books you shouldn’t read on the tube’.