Having a brother or sister is one of the best things in the
world, someone to share your time growing up is something amazing and I’m very
close to both my brother and sister and always have been. When we were growing
up my brother learned to juggle in a summer workshop. Thinking it was th
coolest thing ever (I was 6) I begged my brother to teach me how to do it but
he refused. This meant I spent a long time trying to teach myself which meant a
lot of juggling balls and other objects flying around my living room, garden
and bedroom. As you can imagine a lot of things got broken but I eventfully
managed it.
But the fact remains that whilst learning to juggle I was experiencing
every time I dropped a juggling ball was an encounter with failure, until I had
master how to juggle. The first time that I managed it I was hit by a wall of
elation because of my recent success and therefore had an encounter with success.
I wanted to re-enact this process but using other people in
an experiment to see if they would react the same and see how they feel when
encountering these two emotions. I also wanted to document this process.
So I purchased a selection of fruit and gave three sets of tomatoes
or apples out to random people and then documented their efforts and experience
through videos and images. I also realised that the batter fruit soon became a literal
documentation of their efforts and encounters with failure (I encountered very
little success when people were juggling).
Copy Right Benjamin Viney 2012
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