This blog is part of a series of written reflections by MA Documentary Film students at UAL. The students collaborated in small groups to create short films which responded to the David Usborne Collection. You can watch this film on our social media.
We fall in the limitless universe of the David Usborne Collection.
We tried to research the fast utility and the deep meaning of every object in this collection. Nonetheless, it was during this research that we realised the significant fact of this David Usborne Collection is the internal research in our brain. The research through our preconceived patterns makes us grown in terms of creativity.
In the middle of our contemporary world, where it is invented products with a defined function which create needs in human beings, the David Usborne Collection evokes strong querying in our brain between products and their utility. This interesting subject calls into multiple dimensions of investigation which are going to break the preconceived horizons in your mind...
Why cannot an ordinary element be extraordinary and singular? Any tool you have to use in your daily routine, why is not it extraordinary by using it every day? Why must all the objects have a clear utility? Is that utility absolutely needed in your current day? Are we buying tools because of the visual aspect of the service they give us? Why does everything have to be useful and productive? Is it not useful to provoke emotions in your mind?
David Usborne Collection provokes from the basic to the most complex and deep querying where it is not needed to answer. From ordinary tools, it has created a space of thinking which is often associated with the field of art. Nevertheless... Why cannot art be in your kitchen or in your mouth? Why does art have to be associated with exclusive and useless objects? Can we do art by removing the main function of a standard tool?
Let your mind engage in this cycle of querying with undefined limits through your curiosity!