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There are three white walls, each with two white floating shelves. The shelves are filled with ceramic objects painted with acrylic paint.  One wall has a stack of colorful diet books, baby toys, snackwells cookies, a landline telephone, a newspaper,  baby formula, a gossip magazine with lady Diana on the cover, a cheetah print bra with hot pink ribbon straps, tampax, makeup strewn about, red nail polish, diet sprite cans, mail, a baby bottle, sugar free jello, and low-fat granola.  The second wall has a stack of pots and pans, a strainer, a gallon can of tomatoes, Jean-Naté body spray, aquafor, stacks of pill bottles, eyedrops, baby powder, nasal spray, cookies on a platter, family recipe cards, pill boxes, q-tips, a 2000’s landline phone, a glass of water, two identical electric toothbrushes, a phone book, a framed photo of two people holding hands in a wooded lane, and on the floor a pair of green slippers.  The third wall has minute rice, takis, Gatorade-branded granola bars, a toothbrush facing down, an open deodorant with a hair on it, a 3-in1 dove men’s soap, a hairy razor, a goopy squeezed toothpaste with toothpaste drippings all over, a video game controller, a tv, a phone charging, a coca-cola breeze, a dab pen, a monster energy can, a bag of sour cream and cheddar ruffles, and on the floor a takeout order of chicken wings.

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Brooke Dodderidge

Undergraduate

Have you ever had the experience of going to someone’s house, and maybe they weren't expecting you, so they haven’t cleaned, and they say “I’m so sorry the place is a mess, I didn’t know I would be having company.” To me, each of these moments is a rare unfiltered presentation of self. I’ve always been interested in this moment, in the way someone’s home looks in its natural state and in the things people choose to keep closest to them: what’s on their nightstand, what they keep in their purse, what snacks they have in their kitchen. In this body of work, I wanted to imitate this feeling. I made up three fictional characters, and decided what their lives looked like. I fabricated the objects they would have and created toothpaste and chicken bones, out of ceramic and acrylic paint. I mimicked the way these people would use their products, and eat their food.

I did all this to tell you stories through objects. To see these people, and imagine their lives, and what they ate for dinner, the last phone call they made, and to whom.

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