mutilated

http://notifbutwhen.com/projects/copia/thrift/#i16

The photo I examined contains a sewing machine.  This machine is attached to a table, where other objects are set and pushed against the wall. THe sewing machine itself says Singer and has a sign which says MUTILATED and points downward with an arrow.  a series of other arrows are placed on the machine in red arrow stickers. It is rusting and the text holds a faded appearance. in the fore ground there are red scissors and purple clippers. the front edge of the table contains a ruler.  Directly behind the machine are thread, a coffee creamer container,  and a boom box.  On the wall above there is a Mi Tierra restaurant poster and to the left of it a pile of different items. The condition of the sewing machine and the rest of the environment lead me to assume that they are aged and mistreated.  The machine is most likely broken or incomplete as indicated by the "mutilated" sign.  The fact that there are used objects in the photo suggest that this is a secondhand store and the copious amount of objects placed on the table suggest  that the sewing machine is never really expected to be sold. I feel that Ulrich in his "thrift" section of Copia wanted to show the large amount of objects we have in our culture.  There are so much objects here hey need to be stacked upon each other.  Ulrich might've also wanted to show that what could be someone else's garbage might be useful to someone else.  He might've used this photo as a representation of the lower class, as the downwards arrows may suggest.