First Aid

First Aid replaces the clinical contents of a traditional first-aid kit with something considerably less conventional: a chaotic supply of brightly coloured crayons. By placing creativity inside an object associated with emergency and recovery, the work questions what we consider essential when something needs repairing. Medicine treats the physical wound; here, colour becomes a treatment for something less visible. Against the battered monochrome case, the crayons retain their almost childlike optimism, suggesting that imagination, expression and play may be forms of first aid in their own right.