Vintage crayons (part of larger school supply collection).
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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.
these are wayyyy cool.
ReplyDeletelove the placement.
ReplyDeleteHi, I'm from Brazil. I love your collections and your idea of this blog. I like the way you look the objects, mix colors and placement. Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteLove this. I think it would look great as a print.
ReplyDeleteColors like this were way before my time.
ReplyDeleteI had so completely forgotten about these flat crayons until I saw this picture. I guess they were flat so they couldn't roll away, but I remember being so frustrated because the mark they made was so big that it was hard to stay in the lines (which is no longer important to me.) Love seeing all your vintage office/school supplies. Keep up the good work! ps Do you have a giant glass jar of paste that tastes, I mean smells, like peppermint? Because I also remember that from kindergarten. :)
ReplyDeleteI like how these mirror the image of the dry cleaning tags. They also seem very close to the palette you use in your art, nice indeed.
ReplyDeleteI really like your photo. Can I use the image as part of my new blog's header? This is a non-commercial, personal site: lotfortynine.org (still under construction).
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ReplyDeleteHave you seen this story, about a man in Oregon that has possibly the largest collection of crayola (and other) crayons in the world: http://www.oregonlive.com/O/index.ssf/2010/08/oregon_collector_amasses_the_l.html
ReplyDeleteHis website is: http://crayoncollecting.com/