Bojan's proposal for a project that may or may not be made

The final product of the project will be a photo book containing photos of hairbands that I found on the way between my apartment and faculty. The photos will be arranged as a typology of found object. On some pages there will be single item, on others there will be in groups. Each object will be assigned the characteristics of a fictitious character that owned the single hairband. The texts will be excerpts from world literature heritage.

My fascination with found objects dates to the COVID era, when on my long walks by the Adriatic Sea I came across objects that had been thrown, washed up by the sea. At the same time, I started asking myself very simple questions such as to whom these things belonged, were they thrown away or maybe they were just accidentally lost. Maybe they belong to those unfortunates who tried to cross the Mediterranean in small boats in a hope of better life, or maybe they belonged to yachts owners that sail between islands with vehement ease? Are these people still alive at all?

First I plan to collect about 200-300 hairbands. Then I will systematically photograph them as objects for the archive. Finally, I will combine them in a photo book with texts. The book will be hand bounded by myself.