Possession

In life we are obsessed with out material possessions by spending much time focusing on what we have, what we want, and if what we do have is better than what others have. Due to this we are fueled by a want for money in order to gain these new objects. But does it really matter? We can't take it with us. I feel this focus on possession has a lot to do with my series. The subject wants the light and isolates herself in order to keep it as just hers. No one else's. This is due to the preciousness that the subject puts on the light and resorts to cutting herself off in order to keep it hers. Through this decision, the subject is no longer in charge and is yet again dragged back into this obsession with attaining material.


"In the underground of the museum, down where the digs took place, one can physically see the layers of city and settlement on Pointe-à-Callière, from the initial aboriginal inhabitants through the founding of Ville-Marie, to the governor’s mansion that was once located there, through urbanisation, industrialisation, and so on.  The physical remnants of the buildings, and artefacts are there for the viewer to see." (Spatialities)


"Brighton has the remnants of the material culture of the Irish immigrants and Irish-Americans.  Finding glasswares with symbols of Irish nationalism on them suggests that the movement had some traction amongst the tenement dwellers of the Five Points."(Spatialities)


"Urban Archaeology & Material Culture « Spatialities." Spatialities. Web. 02 Dec. 2010. <http://spatialitism.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/urban-archaeology-material-culture/>
This article was a nice informative recount of the author's experiences with archaeology. It was interesting to see how she and others in the field interpreted the material they found at these sites. She also talked briefly about the museum that is centered around three sites and how the found material is on display in the museum.