Growing up you could say that I was a somewhat destructive child. I would often spend days playing in my garage innocently creating bombs (don’t ask) or severely maiming Action Men with a soldering iron to the delight of my younger brother. I grew up alright in the end mind and so far have managed to get through life without transferring this childhood obsession onto a living thing. Well, other than the time I accidentally killed my friends hamster. And the time I kicked that swan. But that was just self defense. The swan I mean, the hamster was a well timed accident.

Anyway, my point is that through spending a lengthy part of my childhood breaking things for no other reason than to see if I could, I feel like I can appreciate this lovely little short piece by Ryan Kothe. As I hope many of you can too.

Entitled, Worn Out, it features the mesmorisingly slow destruction of several every day objects, documenting them as they wither away to their basic form. Painstakingly filmed using a common file to grate the items into obscurity the results are almost poetic. I guarantee you’ll hit the play button more than once.

For more of Ryan’s work, click here.

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