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This is such a simple and lovely idea from Ida (@ambivalentkingdom on insta). It excited me so much that I immediately went out and bought the photo pocket binder sleeves.
Great for ephemera collectors, concept development for artists, those who imbue sentimentality into every scrap of paper, people who still feel a twinge of heartbreak thinking about the stuffed animals they gave away as a child, and the Pinterest girlies who manically pin posts but never go back to look at their boards (me).
I think she’s right about our tactile needs.
Reminds me of this quote from an interview with Bill Callahan: “I think physical objects have a memory, and the physicality of things helps our brains to believe that the thing is real and potent.”
I think she’s right about our tactile needs.
Reminds me of this quote from an interview with Bill Callahan: “I think physical objects have a memory, and the physicality of things helps our brains to believe that the thing is real and potent.”
Mar 20, 2024
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🎟I love when I go to see a show or something and I get a physical trinket for FREE!!!
Scrapbook, collage wall, memory box ephemera
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I‘ve never felt more activated by nostalgia than while making my little digital collage on Pinterest.
As someone who both destroyed Cosmopolitan magazines to birth physical collages and spent hours collecting photo bucket images for my little microsoft paint digital collages, it was deeply satisfying to put together a bunch of stuff in a single photo.
Is it art? Probably not. Did I certainly create this little piece of something? Yes, and that’s all that matters.
As someone who both destroyed Cosmopolitan magazines to birth physical collages and spent hours collecting photo bucket images for my little microsoft paint digital collages, it was deeply satisfying to put together a bunch of stuff in a single photo.
Is it art? Probably not. Did I certainly create this little piece of something? Yes, and that’s all that matters.
Jan 7, 2025
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📝Does anyone else keep memory boxes?
These are old shoe boxes full of keep sakes which could be as silly as receipts from a holiday, letters from old friends, gig tickets, set lists from memorable shows, photos etc
I have quite a few of them now and am aware that if I keep on going like this, I’ll probably have an entire room full of boxes of these objects that possess a sentimental value. But will that be practical?
So I came up with an idea, an archival undertaking of sorts called ’Debris Of a Life’, where I whittle down my boxes to just one box to rule them all and with the keepsakes that don’t make the cut being scanned and documented via a zine. I’d imagine this could end up being a few volumes worth of material but there is something that has really caught my imagination with this style of scrapbooking being presented in my most favourite of all formats; the zine. I will post more about this idea as it develops.
These are old shoe boxes full of keep sakes which could be as silly as receipts from a holiday, letters from old friends, gig tickets, set lists from memorable shows, photos etc
I have quite a few of them now and am aware that if I keep on going like this, I’ll probably have an entire room full of boxes of these objects that possess a sentimental value. But will that be practical?
So I came up with an idea, an archival undertaking of sorts called ’Debris Of a Life’, where I whittle down my boxes to just one box to rule them all and with the keepsakes that don’t make the cut being scanned and documented via a zine. I’d imagine this could end up being a few volumes worth of material but there is something that has really caught my imagination with this style of scrapbooking being presented in my most favourite of all formats; the zine. I will post more about this idea as it develops.
Apr 6, 2025
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I wish I could re-rec with an image but this is in reply to @MARIAMARIA’s rec. I had to dig way back in my photos to 2022 and find the clay cow tools I made. Unfortunately, I abandoned them so they never got fired but maybe I’ll re-visit the project once I can afford pottery classes again.
Jun 20, 2025