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Project name Christien Meindertsma Web Page
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Persons Christien Meindertsma
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Country netherlands
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URL http://www.christienmeindertsma.com/
Tags portfolio, artist, inspiration, product, books, knitting, raw materials, life of products, industry, global world, art, design,
Text Christien Meindertsma explores the life of products and raw materials. For her first book, Checked Baggage (2004), Christien purchased a container filled with a week's worth of objects confiscated at security checkpoints in Schiphol Airport after 9/11. She meticulously categorized all 3267 items and photographed them on a white seamless background. Christien’s second book, PIG 05049 (2007), is an extensive collection of photographic images that documents an astounding array of products that different parts of an anonymous pig called 05049 could support. With this book, Christien reveals lines that link raw materials with producers, products and consumers that have become so invisible in an increasingly globalized world.