Collecting Data

E V E R Y D A Y  L I F E 

For the new sampling unit I found it difficult to put my finger on what I thought of as data, and then I realised that data is really everything. Everything we think and do can be considered data. From this perspective I then decided to base my project on collections of data. 

I began the unit by collecting data from everyday life. I chose to collect all of the wasted tea bags in my house each day. I did this because it was interesting to me that they are normally thrown away and I wanted to recycle them in some way. 

I had heard about tea bag waxing before but never tried it myself, and so with my collections  I started to experiment and found myself with some really pleasing outcomes. 

This waxed tea bag below was the first one I produced and I filled the inside with things I was going to throw away or little things i found. Inside this tea bag, was a long piece of thread, a cut out bit of card from the packaging of a desert and a piece of music paper from a book that my sister was throwing out. 

I experimented with random things I was going to throw away and tried this in circle and rectangle shapes. 

After much more experimentation I found what I liked and decided to produce some more samples this time with both used tea bags and unused tea bags.