we live in a sea of detritus – orphaned objects are all around us and each has a discoverable narrative. Objects cast off onto the street (trash, recyclables, litter) produce orphans of form. Their reading collapses and they become either invisible or part of the ambient formic noise of the street.

In this series of one and two-day projects, Joynes and Bogaert collect objects based on an agreed “daily menu” (made of a certain material, color, form) and then reprocess them at the 266 W 37th Street venue, rediscovering or reinventing the narratives of these cast-off objects. This project was conceived by Joynes in 2007 and is inspired in part by Claes Oldenburg’s object collecting and making in the Ray Gun Mfg. Co. in New York in 1962.

Tom Bogaert left the law to become an artist in 2004. Selected exhibitions include: Archaeology of Wonder at Real Art Ways – Hartford, CT; Canaries at the Art Parade by Deitch Projects and Creative Time, New York, NY and Amahoro at Jack the Pelican Presents – Brooklyn, NY.

Les Joynes trained at Goldsmiths College, London. Selected exhibitions include: Middleworlds, Michael Steinberg Fine Art; Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo curated by Roger McDonald; Sandra Bürgel Gallery, Berlin, curated by Klaus Winichner; and upcoming Painting Zombies at University of Minnesota curated by Terence Morgan. Most recently he has worked on Cities of Tomorrow – a project with was most recently the Bauhaus, Dessau Germany in 2009.