Stacy Gever Blog #2 "Saved"

This exhibition was called, "Saved" by Jody Servon and it displays photographs of objects that people have saved from deceased ones. I noticed that though all of the saved objects are random and small enough to be held, there really was no pattern between the objects. However, most of them looked like they were from the same time period. If I could guess, I would say this time period would be the years around World War II and even earlier. The artist frames all of these simple photos and puts glass in the frame, making these objects appear to have even more value and force the viewer to look harder at objects that one may normally only glance at. This way of displaying these objects work, but I would have even enjoyed to see the people who now own these objects in the photos. I'm sure there would be a vast difference within the type of people who all have this one aspect of their lives in common.

I took a photo of the "Wendy's" to-go cup. It in intrigues me because I don't understand why someone would want to keep this object. It doesn't seem to have value and I wonder why it does. Even though it is the most generic looking object in the gallery, it was the only object that really stuck out in my mind after I had left. The colors are red and yellow, and I wonder how old this cup is. The style hasn't changed much, and I wonder what kind of food was in their in the first place. I also wonder if the worker at Wendy's who put the food inside this cup had any idea in his or her mind that a picture of it would be taken and placed inside an art gallery.

The only thing I can say about this particular object that I had chosen is that I want to make a story out of it. Possibly it was a war veteran's first meal on American Soil after the war had ended, and it therefore had special meaning to him. Of course, his relatives want to support his legacy and his duties as a veteran so they kept it. Simple objects like this are special when they are saved. I love when objects are out of date. The reason is because once an object no longer has a purpose, it becomes a piece of art, and stays a piece of art forever.