Patricia Ramos
Currencies: It's the little things
Can the little things be noticed?
When I walk, I photograph the things that I notice. I also get to thinking about what I would be doing at Elam or not at all. Most of my works throughout the year have been drawn on the many walks I have taken, which had been influenced by Richard Long’s A Line Made by Walking (1967). These candid photographs from my phone and sometimes from the camera I loaned out are bound into books, displayed discretely, free for perusal by anyone who chooses to see them at any time.
Can something as little as those books be noticed at all? Can that beanie on the wall be noticed without us being told it is there? If an environment such as the corridor is changed, can we slow down to look at it and question why it’s there at all?
By attaching cardboard onto the walls, it leaves the evidence of my time being there, of having walked through it throughout the year to get into the studio spaces. I noticed the importance of needing to clear the corridor at all times, as well as it being the space where things are left behind. The corridor contains the memories and the traces of footsteps of others in the art school. The audio-recording leads us through those memories and footsteps again.
Do we give enough time to notice the little things of our surroundings?
