The Reject Pile
“Often faceless, always anonymous men, whose identities had been reduced to a point beyond
their status as mere workers to the very mechanical operations of their hands.”
- Max Fraser, Hands off the Machine
The workers in a garment factory form an assembly
line to create the same garment. They repeat the
same action and each worker has a definite task.
The rejected garments represent their malfunction,
a break in their routine. What makes the factory workers malfunction; and break their daily routine
of repetition?
I wanted to understand the failure or malfunction these damaged garments symbolise. I was looking at the garments not as rejects or symbols of failure, but as a manifestation of the different, the inimitable.