Closets

 

A person's closet is a forgotten space filled with "useful" items that we hang on to thinking that one day we might use it for something. This isn't necessarily the case. What usually ends up happening is we keep these so-called "useful" items, and they just end up sitting in boxes in our closets or basements never to be touched again; the "useful" items are really useless junk. This is definitely applies to my closet. The floor, doors of my rubbermaid container, and shelves are full of "useful" items that I think I will use at some point in the future. Doubtful.

However useless the junk is that clutters our closet floors and shelves, there is one somewhat redeeming quality to all this garbage; shape. The spaces created and relationship of the collection of shoe boxes, paper boxes, plain cardboard boxes and various other kinds of boxes that fill my shelves lends itself to rather interesting compositions. The negative space created by the awkward fitting items that have no home, or the random piles of junk that have accumulated on top of the boxes full of random piles of junk are rather intriguing. This is just one example of both the junk that fills my closet, and the relationship of said junk.