How to make someone grow with you

Discovered a new favourite book. Janfamily - 'Plans for Other Days'

The back of this book says


'This book suggests, it doesn't dictate. It is a list of proposals on how to relate to our surroundings. A manual of moments. It is a life we are living. Being at home, going out, feeling on our own and being together. We look at the simple things that don't get much attention and seek alternatives to routines. We alter and take over what we can touch and feel. With everyday interventions and intuition we try to reclaim our lives. We try to come closer, closer to our own lives and to others.'


Every 3 pages or so, this book addresses a common everyday issue or small social ambition in a 'how to' manual format. It is then illustrated with a couple of photos depicting a solution to this problem using objects from what seems like one single flat.
One page is titled 'How to make a commitment', is then illustrated by a photo of a man stood next to a rack of outfits where each shirt is sewn directly to a pair of trousers, thus making them a set.

Another is titled 'How to reach for the sky', and is illustrated with two photos; one of 4 chairs around a table set with plates, bowls, cups, knives and forks etc and the other of the same objects but rearranged so that they reach the ceiling.
I really like that there is very little, if any, notes explaining the photos. This leaves them open for interpretation by the viewer. For example, for this 'How to reach for the sky' photo, I take from this the moral that although a goal can seem unobtainable, by working hard on it, it can be done. And that something which seems useless can often be changed and make to have a use, even if it is in an unlikely way.

'How to stop time'. (The leaves have been taped back on to the branches)

I think that this book has given me the idea for the next stage of my project. I had been recording my daily events and feelings (in not very much detail, so as to keep the resulting visual image simple enough to be aesthetically pleasing), but want to reuse this data to make a further, and different result.
One idea would be to take a feeling or concern that I've recorded for each day and make it into a new image illustrating a positive outcome from it. I will test this and assess the results and record the difficulties I would find doing this for every day I have recorded so far, which is 18 days.