The goal of my project was to develop a machine whose process of capture would a destructive one. I was inspired by quantum physics research, for the moment any data is collective, the object of interest has changed or has been destroyed as a result. I wanted to develop a machine that illustrated this concept in a more tangible processes that was connected to a more human experience. This project takes objects that are marketed to be of sentimental value and captures these objects the moment before they shatter. By filming them using a 960-fps camera and recording the sound I capture the image of the object as whole but allude the sound of its death implying the object is no longer in existence.
I wanted to present my objects as small snapshots of each moment. The objects that I am presenting aim to tell a story of a single individual is has gone through life purchasing these objects dedicated to capturing special moments. The object that were meant to hold a memory now live in a digital shelf where they no longer exist in the physical realm.
The end result of my project still has room to grow. I think an opportunity that I could explore is to have several groups of objects that could be linked to multiple people and their objects. This single set, I believe appears to be a single person of a specific taste, but I would love to have multiple collections that go to tell a variety of memorabilia. Another improvement could be to rather than use a high-speed camera is to take this concept a step further and step up a camera to a pressure plate and link the drop of the object to the camera to only capture a single frame the moment it hits the ground. In this collection method, the machine can only document and remember the object has whole and has no evidence that it was changed or broken in the process.