Gut 5 by Gut

Gut 5

A meditation on utility.

Do mundane acts, such as household chores, done in isolation, have intrinsic creative value?

How does a person, without the benefit of an instrument or an audience, express themselves creatively?

Is doing the laundry a work of art?
Is there meaning in drudgery?
Or am I just another person who recorded their dryer?

Creative purpose is intrinsic to the hidden lives and labour of ordinary people. This creative purpose is dissolved when we become alienated from our vocation.

Perhaps innate value is lost when artistic acts and objects are subject to the market.

Dishes clanking in the sink is music. Every dryer cycle is a song sung once.

Details:
I recorded almost an entire dryer cycle (Frigidaire Gallery Series) with my phone (Huawei p20 lite), messed around with the audio in Reaper using free plug-ins. Album art is a photo of my dryer, messed around with it using a free app called 8-Bit Photolab.

I ripened on a Christmas Day.