Monday, February 23, 2009

Found Paper

Random pieces of paper collected on a walk in the neighborhood. Discarded paper always seems to me like precious artifacts of an unknown life. It's fun to imagine what importance these pieces of paper held to their previous owners and what misadventures occurred for them to get lost.


“Do not be surprised if the poetic emerges from deep within the bowels of the ordinary.” Nice typography (at least in the title) and elegant graphic elements on a mundane scheduling document.


“Travel to the edge of anything and the path becomes much more seductive than the noted destination.” Collecting and collaging is the fun part. Finding the connections among the pieces (they are there, or at least can be imagined) is the breaking away from process.


“Nurture an appreciation of the mundane.” Again, the unnoticed elements make life beautiful, like this piece of paper that has been textured by being dragged over the pavement again and again.

1 comment:

  1. i hope you can find a way to connect with the project again. you have some beautiful imagery. the photos you took early on were stunning. i think if you look at your best images and texts and just start composing them into sequences you will have many ideas to work with.

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