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Photograph 100 pieces of chewing gum, display them in a way that removes them from their original setting and re arranges them by form, relationship or something else.


BEN WILSON

Many streets in England have been littered with chewing gum stuck to pavements, leaving it awful to look at and clean up and Britain spends £150 million annually cleaning chewing gum from pavement.

Ben Wilson started experimenting with occasional chewing-gum paintings in 1998, and in October 2004 began doing them full time. He has created more than 10,000 of these works on pavements all over the UK and parts of Europe. Wilson transforms gum that everyday people leave behind on the streets in to art.

He scours the streets looking for nothing but gum which is obviously old, he then heats it up with a burner and lacquers it which hardens the gum and creates a surface which he can paint on with acrylic paint, and he then adds another layer of lacquer on top of the paint. Applying this to the gum beforehand allows it to stay on longer and become a permanent street presence.

STEPHEN GILL

Stephen Gill is a British photographer and after looking at his work there was one piece in particular that I liked called a series of disappointments.

In this piece he used many betting slips, scrunched and twisted to from many shapes. 

"Each of these papers began as hope, were shaped by loss or defeat, and then cast aside. These new forms perhaps now possess a state of mind, shaped by nervous tension and grief. After these images were made, little autopsies were performed on the papers to reveal failed bets held within."

I love the simplicity if these photos and how each is photographed in the same way with the same background.even though the photographers are simple there is a lot of meaning behind them.