Ordinary is such a common word but when you try to explain what it means it becomes very complicated. What makes something ordinary or normal? Something that is ordinary is generally accepted by the majority of the public to be ordinary. In other words when most people say that something is ordinary it makes it so because ordinary is really all about how you perceive something. If everyone says that a stop sign put at an intersection is ordinary than that’s how people perceive that stop sign. But what happens if you put that same stop sign that everyone thinks is normal and put it in the middle of the street where there is no intersection? Now all of a sudden that same object that was perceived as normal is now “weird” or out of the ordinary. Wolfgang Tillmans has a grid of pictures that is called “Ordinary Objects”. Why would he call these pictures ordinary? In the movie “American Beauty”, Lester says, “Our marriage is just for show – a commercial for how normal we are.” The movie shows how something that is thought to be normal really isn’t; the idea that appearances are deceiving, or judging a book by its cover.
Ordinary also has different levels to it. If you are talking about Lester’s job then in that respect Lester is an ordinary guy making an ordinary living. But once you get into more detail about his life than we start to see where if you take a person’s life as a whole you can see where no one would really fit the description of being just plain normal. This works for all things. There are always areas of people or objects that can fit the description of being normal, but if you look at the whole story about that person or object then it’s not ordinary.
ng that Wolfgang Tillmans named his group of pictures “Ordinary Objects”. At first sight of the pictures there’s really nothing that jumps out at you. My first impression is that they are just ordinary objects. But if you think about them and examine them than you’ll know that none of them are really that ordinary. They are all unique and different. There’s really nothing ordinary about anything. The first picture in the group displays what appears to be a jacket or a pair of pants laid on the banister. This is nothing that I would consider exciting, but it’s laying there in a peculiar wa
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