[Our] Spills

For five years I have photographed everything I have accidentally spilled (see 'Spills' Archive), not because any individual spill seemed significant, but because significance began to emerge through repetition. This has resulted in a collection, a digital archive of over 500 spills.

I was invited to play with this archive at OMI, a space for art, design and architecture in Rotterdam. I created a system for mapping spills, to assign new meaning to something usually seen as meaningless. The event became a participatory spilling ground, resulting in a 9 meter spilling archive, and highlighing the value of things primarily seen as accidents, or mistakes. 



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