Joseph Cornell was a modernist artist who without any formal art training collected his interests and memories and housed them in his box constructions. Cornell used these boxes to illuminate his dreams, poems and thoughts about his life and world. He played with texture, form, light and found objects. He enjoyed turning the everyday objects into found treasures and ambiguous themes. Movie stars and theatres, holidays and places, history and architecture all form part of Joseph’s collections. The boxes are reminiscent of the cabinets of curiosities that were prolific in Victorian era. The attraction to his boxes for myself is that looking at them over and over again changes with time. As we age so do the boxes and the memories attached to them. As a way of using this method to explain my own memory collection for my project, I have had to careful not to make them to contrived of they can look they have been made by primary school children. The following images are of some Cornell’s work.
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