European Locations Dreamed with a Limited Imagination

: This visual essay develops the idea of the artefact’s ability to suggest, imply or initiate a narrative or string of narrative associations. European Locations Dreamed with a Limited Imagination is a series of images of the same quotidian objects composed differently and photographed from a variety of angles. These common, modern, mass-produced objects range from a reel of cotton and a bull-dog clip to a marble and a gold cup-cake case. Individually these mass produced, cheap objects suggest only ‘use-value’. Here, however, they become representative of possible locations. This sensibility is steered further by the use of simplistic text; these objects appear as though they are advertisements for European getaways. This essay continues Donnelly's interest in the use of found objects, especially the mass-produced, to create tableaux. Her work is made in the studio over a period of time, through questioning, re-phrasing and re-working a range of sculptural matter: household wares, imported fashion bargains and second-hand finds. Donnelly’s methods of production give her work a strong sense of time which mirrors conventions found in popular culture – editing, cropping, elimination, montage and narration. Résumé: Cet essai visuel interroge la capacité de l'objet de suggérer, impliquer, ou susciter un récit ou une cha ne d'associations narrative. European Locations Dreamed with a Limited Imagination est une série d'images des mêmes objets quotidiens, vus différemment et photographiés de plusieurs points de vue. Ces objets banals, modernes, produits en masse, sont d'une grande diversité: une pelote de coton, une laisse de chien, une bille, un moule de patisserie, etc. Pris un à un, ces objets tout à fait "cheap" ne semblent avoir d'autre valeur que leur valeur d'usage. Toutefois, dans la présentat