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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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ReplyDeleteGreat, I'm collecting this as well, it's so beautifull! Great picture
ReplyDeleteWonderful, I love anything related to sewing. I have some of my Grandmother's sewing supples. They are such a treasure!!
ReplyDeleteI hit stumble and got here.. Strangely enough its similar (though I'm sure, far more difficult) than my own blog that I started about a month ago.
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Though, most days I have 0 views I figure it'll eventually pick up. Your blog is inspiring for me.. Gotta keep with it.
-Clay
claytonsmalley@gmail.com
I just love vintage sewing supplies! I have a small box of vintage threads and notions that I have kept. Lovely!
ReplyDeleteI learned that these type of things are called "notions"; sewing notions. Like your threads give the notion of connections to other times, other hands, colors that have softened and packagings that have held up and been held over travels and usages and stowing aways. There is a story in the book Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino about a city where for all relationships, deep and superficial, a thread is strung from and to the locations of the persons in the relationships. When finally the town has become too entangled in the criss-cross of human interactions everyone packs up and leaves to make a new town - leaving only the woven web of human lives behind, leaving only the notion of the people who'd live there; people notions.
ReplyDeletegorgeous colors! i love this collection.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite things to find at estate sales are spools of vintage silk thread. I have a jar of them even though I rarely use them.
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