The shelving units discuss a number of different aspects of sustainable design, predominately utilizing the ‘re-use’ and ‘re-make’ notions. The display below was made up of 661 cassette tapes, comprising of a selection of Amway business tapes, different music styles and family events. The idea surrounding this work is based on storage. The primary function for cassette tapes is storage, it’s an audible vessel for favourite music, information and important events in a persons’ life which often provoke strong notions of nostalgia. This work is now a visual means of storage for memorable items rather than an audible documentation of them. It’s an old, out-dated medium for storage but is now being re-used to continue to serve the same function it was designed for, just in a different manner.
The components can be arranged in a number of different ways to appear as cogs and wheels, meshing together in reference to the original mechanism of a cassette player.
