Clean up Clean up Everybody Everywhere

       I'm not sure what this picture was called, but it was from the retail part of Copia, and it was the one where there is a big mess of clothes piled on top of one another in a store. I see in this picture a bunch of unwanted clothes in a mess on a couple shelves. There is a lot of color, and many different styles of clothing. It's interesting because it looked like the amount of clothes on the shelf was more than what was actually supposed to be there, yet it looked like there was nothing missing from the racks lining the walls. I also noticed that these particular shelves had a sale going, but you cannot see what the sale is because the clothes are all in the way. I think the artist really wanted the mess to stand out in this picture so he made it the biggest thing, and in the center. It doesn't seem like he played with light at all because everything seems to be evenly lit so your eyes are drawn to multiple things at once. I think that the artist took this picture because it symbolizes how people don't care about the little things in life (at least in my opinion). How sometimes people can be selfish. Like they look at a shirt or a piece of clothing on a shelf, decide they don't like it and then just throw it back up on the shelf as if its worthless. In reality it is just a shirt so it kind of is worthless to most people. But to the person that has to organize those shelves every night for the third week in a row, it becomes more than just a shirt. It becomes more tedious work they have to put up with. It is pretty inconsiderate for people to not just take one extra minute from their time to put clothes back where they found them. This picture spoke to me because my sister worked for Aeropostale for a little bit and would always talk about having to organize shelves and tables that always got as messy as this by the end of the day. She constantly had to stay late at work fixing things, and then would come home too exhausted to talk or anything. It took so much out of her. When I am in a store I always try and put things back the way that I found them because I feel like that's just the right thing to do. To me this picture says to slow down. Take time for the little things in life. Life moves too fast and if you don't slow down once in awhile you might miss it. Also it tells me that going too fast and not having consideration for other people, only thinking about yourself, only creates a mess. I mean "mess" metaphorically. Another thing this picture could be saying is, don't procrastinate. Maybe the worker who was supposed to be cleaning off this shelf put it off until the end of the day. That obviously did nothing for him/her because now they have even more work to do. I am a professional procrastinator and I speak from experience when I say that it is better to get your wok done early then to wait until it builds up so that it is not humanly possible for you to get it all done in the short amount of time that you have. I liked this picture and all the colors. Here is the picture: http://notifbutwhen.com/projects/copia/retail/#i32