Each of these items were found while I was walking either to or from my house, either along A1A or on Flagler Blvd. They all appealed to me in the way that they seem to purposely have a visual appeal. Most of them are containers for popularized consumer items, that are consumed within a short period of time, yet there was such care taken to make them look like they contained something extaordianary. I thought that it is ironic that the container outlives the product and that in a the environment where they are sold they would probably just register to me as visual noise, but in discarded contrast against organic surroundings they register as bling, as something that is "pretty" just for the sake of being pretty. The beads and the leaf obviously are not packaging items but they were a couple of the initial items that I collected and it was their formal qualities that sparked my interest in the consumer items.
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