Curate My Holiday

To curate my Christmas
holiday I had to find a way to document an aspect of it so as to have
something to curate. I decided to focus on Christmas day as my
limited time period in which to document it. Then from that I chose
to collect and document my Christmas card envelopes. I chose the
envelopes from my Christmas cards as they are a easily forgotten
part of Christmas and I like the idea of archiving and displaying
aspects of Christmas that are usually discarded and forgotten as they
become obsolete functionless objects once they have fulfilled their
purpose of containing Christmas cards from one place to the next.
Envelopes are an object with a very specific function and they are
unusual in the way that their ability function only lasts for a very
small amount of time once they have been sent. Though Christmas card
envelopes are often dissimilar to envelopes used for sending letters
in as they often don't have a stamp on them as they are either handed
over in person or send inside a package containing a present. The
need for an envelope for a Christmas card is then lacking. If I was
to display my envelopes as an art object I would display them as a
collection, with an intent to add to each Christmas to become an ever
evolving artwork. I would display them in the same way stamps are
displayed as there is a clear link between the two objects. Stamps
are displayed in an album and a magnifying glass is used to see them
more clearly. They would be displayed in a museum so as to preserve
them and present them as items of value and cultural and historical
significance to contrast with the way they are usual seen as items of
minimal value and importance. It would be a comment on the way items
that are seen as obsolete, gain value with age and by being placed in
a museum. Also the collection of envelopes embodys the feeling of christmas as they contain cards which something people give and recive at christmas.
The audience of this piece would be the sort of people that
enjoy going to museums, it is not aimed at a specific age range but
more at the people who frequent museums and are interested in the archiving of objects.
I don't think it is of
importance that I have not physically displayed the actual envelopes
in a physical piece instead of scanning them in because writing how I
would display them is enough that they can be visualised in the
manner I would wish to display them. I have scanned an example of
them in and uploaded it onto here to prove that I did actually
collect them.