Exhibition of the Show

The jar art project allowed for a twofold exhibition of our work. The first was a guerrilla-type exhibition where we took our jars to the streets and set up for the public to come and engage in our show. We began our morning by setting up in Trafalgar Square but the security guards asked us to step up out of the square so we repositioned our exhibition of jars at the base of the National Gallery in London. We stood here for about 30 minutes and engaged in positive dialog with people passing by.


The next phase allowed for a formal exhibition of the work by a recognized institution. Images of our project were taken to the Institute of Contemporary Arts a week ago and a proposal was made asking for permission to install ourselves in their space. They agreed, so after our set up at the steps of the National Gallery, we were allowed inside the Institute of Contemporary Arts where we installed our show before the doors opened and took photographs to document the exhibition.

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In my jar is a ripped up one dollar bill. The bill is in exactly 100 pieces. I did this because things only truly have value when people put value on it.

I placed my jar in a tree, because money does not grow on trees, although we wish it did, and it is initially made from trees.

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My jar is pieces of Bayswater. A collection and representation of all that grows there, is left there, and all the different people who have and will be there. Connecting us to others by what they've left behind.

Since my piece was showing how we gain from things left behind, I felt it fit in
great with catacombs, what people have left behind.

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For my jar of a hundred things, I made it into the things I want in my life. I picked four different categories, things I want to eat, things I want to do, and places I want to go, and people I want to be friends with for the rest of my life. I decided that wants are something really important in our lives. It is what drives us to make you become who you are and what the world will become.

• I this picture at the V&A behind the glass by one of the art projects called Blood on Paper for a couple of reasons. I took the picture behind that glass because it represents my jar, and how all me dreams are trapped in that little jar and sometimes i feel like my want and dreams are trapped by some unseen force thats why i was trapped in glass. I did the picture with Blood on Paper because that statment to me is like saying im putting everything on what you do, even if it means putting your own blood and sweat into it. Because i put my dreams and wants into this jar and that is like putting a piece of me into the jar.

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100 words that represent my experience in London. Cut up individually by letter. The bigger letters represent the things I enjoyed the most and the smaller letters represent the things I enjoyed least. All cut from brochures and handouts collected while in London.

I fit in at the V&A in the British Gallery because my Jar represents 100 words that represent my experience in Britian.

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I made a 100 molar sodium chloride solution.

I put my jar under the eye of a bust of a man that looked like he was crying. The salt solution I made is similar to the saline in tears, so this conceptually fit in with the exhibit because my jar was placed to look it was catching the man's tears. My jar formally fit in with the exhibit because the cloudy color of the salt solution was similar to the color of the white marble used to make the bust of the man.

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100 pieces of colored thread knotted together with the intention of creating an interesting negative space.


I chose to use the bannister in the glass gallery, because I thought
the poles looked like the individual threads, especially the way that
some are simple and straight and some are twisted, but all together
they look really complex.

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My jar contains a single strand of hair from 100 women I met in London.


I placed myself in an exhibition of women's clothing and accessories.

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My jar contains 100 grains of salt. I chose salt because it was one of the most influential and sought after commodities in history.

The location is the cafe of the V and A. Salt plays a huge role in the preservation of foods, in cooking foods, and in how we eat. We live off of salt, with out we die. I found that the cafe where there is food being prepared, cooked, and eaten is so related with salt, that that is where my jar deserved to be.

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This piece has 99 pinches of soil from Kensington Gardens and 1 cherry seed. The piece is based on the saying, "Life is just a bowl of cherries," which is an idiom typically used to describe life when it is very pleasant. The concept behind my work is that in life, we must grow our own cherries in order to have the wonderful things happen. The soil from Kensington Gardens goes back to J. M. Barrie's concept of childhood and the imagination--it reflects how our imagination is often the best soil for our dreams to grow from, and thus, our happiness to spring from.

The cherry seed (happiness in life) needs to be nourished by the earth (ourselves) the same way a child must be nourished by their mother in order to grow healthy and strong.

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This jar contains 100 colors of London, represented by many different materials found within the city such as candy wrappers, pieces of clothing, and plant life.


I photographed my jar in the gift shop with the bucket of pins because they both represent several colors and textures.

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My jar is full of pencil shavings. The shavings represent the creation of dreams.

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I put 100 pence in the jar in the form of a pound. Most people are motivated by self interest, and money is something that you need to take care of yourself. Seeing as the pound is the strongest currency at the moment, in that little jar is one of the biggest motivating factors for society.

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In my jar are one hundred pieces of my hair that I collected over 2 days. Half of the hairs are braided while the other half are losely curled into the jar. These hairs represent my personal identity.

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Our society is consumed by commodities and this has resulted in a large amount of packaging. Unfortunately most of the packaging is being thrown away instead of recycled. My jar contains 100 pieces of packaging that could be recycled but instead were thrown away.

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My jar is full of raindrops. There is nothing better than London rain after a sunny morning.

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My jar is filled with the word "same" 100 times. But each repetition of the word is in a font, size, style, or color different from the other "same"s. This is representative of our mind set when we see a group of people wearing similar clothes; or talking, running or walking similarly; or all have a shopping bag from the same place; or are of a certain study concentration; or attend an unfamiliar school... But time after time I find that as soon as I spend time with the individual, they are so not the same.

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Pencil shavings. 100 turns of the same pencil with a different shaving as the result. Same pencil, same sharpener, same turns, different outcome

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This jar contains sixty small green leaves and forty white daisy petals. Nature is a vital part of any system, including works of art. The color green is dominant in this jar, just as it is in nature. The white petals are also symbolic as they represent the purity that can be found in unpolluted natural systems.

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My jar contains the descriptions of 100 people that I spent time with on the District Line between 9 and 10 am, May 28, 2008.