Industrial Fragility

A coffee mug on the verge of collapse.

✦This project tells a story of loneliness and neglectfulness.
Some of the most familiar and iconic items are either so ubiquitous that we stopped paying any sort of attention or silently disappearing from our lives because of technological obsolescence.
Mundane and obsolete household objects are given new importance by slight modifications of their established nature, creating a new loving and fragile¹ tension between us and them.

Royal College of Art,
2007

Left: a crashed desk fan, once kept on balance only by the push its spinning blades

A crashed desk fan, once kept on balance only by the push its brittle spinning blades.

Easily broken or damaged. Flimsy or insubstantial; easily destroyed. Delicate and vulnerable. ↵ back

Everything Is Under Control

Phytolitography device.

LABoral,
2010.

Toys

Highlights from the 2005 bankruptcy auction of ENT International. A photographic essay.

Royal College of Art,
2009.

Playgrounds

An alternative unsettling view of the modern productivity sanctuaries.

Royal College of Art,
2009.

The City

Amidst the constant rumbling noise of the HVAC systems, the other nature of corporate spaces is revealed.

Royal College of Art,
2008.

Industrial Fragility

Mundane and obsolete household objects are given new importance by slight modifications of their established nature, creating a new loving tension between us and them.

Royal College of Art,
2007.

Corley's Radio

Mike Corley is a UK citizen and the author of the website five.org.uk where he keeps detailed stories on what he suspects being a campaign of harassment against him waged by the MI5, the British security service.