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This is a blog documenting a project that will span exactly one year, from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010. On each of those 365 days, I will photograph or draw (and occasionally paint) one collection. Most of the collections are real and exist in my home or studio; those I will photograph. Some are imagined; those I will draw or (occasionally) paint.
Since I was a young girl, I have been obsessed both with collecting and with arranging, organizing and displaying my collections. This is my attempt to document my collections, both the real and the imagined. Some of my collections are so large that I will need to photograph them separately over several days. I will likely not attempt to photograph collections in which the individual pieces are large in size or awkward in shape (i.e. my art collection or vintage enamel dishware collection). The only rule is that I must photograph or draw a whole or part of a collection each day for 365 days and post the result here on this blog.
The practice of collecting and documenting collections is as old as the hills. I want onlookers here to know that I do not profess to be doing anything new or unique or ingenious. I am embarking on this project because I love my collections, and I want to document them in a way that makes sense to me, and share them with whoever might be interested in looking at them.
This blog is open for comments. I encourage you to share your thoughts about what memories the photographs and drawings of my collections spark for you and what, if any, sense of nostalgia or repulsion they make you feel.
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For those of you who have stumbled here and don’t already know me, my name is Lisa Congdon. I am an artist and illustrator, and I live in the Mission District of San Francisco with my partner Clay Lauren Walsh and our Chihuahua Wilfredo and two cats, Barry and Margaret. If you are interested, you can see the kind of artwork I make on my website or on the website of my illustration agent, Lilla Rogers. If you would like to see what my home looks like (as it contains many of my collections) you can see a house tour here. You can view my studio (also a repository) here.
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Enjoy.
you own a lot of vintage stuff.
ReplyDeleteA friend sent me a link to your blog and I am an immediate follower! It is also an inspiration for me to keep going with the "My Stash" posts on my own blog,
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I know you said you were aware of others doing this; have you seen the book In Flagrante Collecto? If not, I think you would be immediately sucked in...
Will keep watching,
Regards,
Christine
PS: Also contacted your rep regarding my illustration work:
www.christinefrancisbarta.com
Check it out if you get a chance!
I just found your blog and I am thrilled!!!! I think we must be kindred spirits. http://circlealine.blogspot.com/2009/03/list-150-visual-list-150-little-things.html
ReplyDeleteI'm really glad I found this blog. Your collections are always so great, and I'm always so, so inspired by them!
ReplyDeleteI'm really enjoying this project. It makes me think about the collections that I have as well as the collections that I must force myself to say "no" to because ... so many beautiful things, only so much space.
ReplyDeleteThanks for embarking on this adventure. I'm along for the ride!
Your collection today reminded me that for several years I kept all the tail threads I cut from my sewing projects. I called it the end of strings collection.
ReplyDeleteLove this idea.
Abigale
lovely old threads..the cards they're wound on are just as lovely
ReplyDeletewhat a colours!! beautiful!
ReplyDeletethis is the greatest project and so ambitious. i'm looking forward to seeing all of your sketches and collections!
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of my grandmother so there is great nostalgic attachment to these images. What a wonderful idea to photograph your collections over the span of a year. I look forward to it.
ReplyDeleteSuch a great idea!
ReplyDeleteCompliments for your work!
Wooden sewing boxes filled with balls of tangled thread, cards with embroidery silk, buttons, needles and pins clustered together with spit gone rust
ReplyDeleteMany of the marvelous collections posted here exists in my shop in İstanbul.. The Works, Objects of Desire..
ReplyDeleteYou may see some of the stuff by joining the shops group in Facebook..
Group name: ''The Works, Objects of Desire''
Karaca Borar..
I just discovered this blog and I love it... You remind me of me. Sometimes I make poems that are just collections of stuff. One has a collection of stuff I found in an attic in rural Sweden. The house used to be the general store for the small town, and the attic had boxes of leftover things in it, such as rolls of vintage wallpaper, shipping tags with the store's address on it, and old cards of metal snaps (as you would find at a fabric store). This last thing fascinated me the most because there were multiple boxes of old snaps, like this was the one thing the store couldn't get rid of.
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