During the last 6 months I worked on a huge project. This started out as a project to just shoot my clothing items then turned into a shooting everything I own. I ended up photographing each item individually, piece by piece. I shot this so that I could be able to get rid of most of my things while still keeping the memory of them, that way when I leave toledo, my load will be as light as possible.
To complete the project I printed each piece as a 4×6 and hung them up in the Gerber House Gallery. I put a classic “$X” garage sale sticker on each and during the duration of the show had an ongoing sale. The concept was almost like window-shopping-online-in-an-art-gallery. Participants would pick off the wall an item that they were interested in then bring it to me to get the product and purchase.
The whole thing went well overall. I ended up selling about half of my things, donating about a quarter of them and keeping the last quarter of them. There were over 2000 images/items all together, to shoot this series I had to treat it like a full time job. I plan on keeping up with this series for as long as I can. I see it as holding onto material objects is really nothing more than holding onto a memory or idea. I can to the same thing with the images, and take up a lot less space.
I was wearing this flannel the night derrick and I went to the drive in fall of 2007, I had been begging him to go with me for months.
These are my most comfortable pair of jeans (not including my light blue classic levi’s). I wore these jeans when I photographed Gorilla Zoe at blueprint lounge, a big black guy with gold teeth spanked me that night, which was extremely awkward.
I bought theses earrings like 5 years ago for like 50 cents. I never wore them once before taking this photo. I always liked them a lot though.
I used to wear this head wrap like it was my job.
I had this since I was a kid. There is a button on the back that when you press is plays a annoying kids song. and your supposed to brush your teeth for as long as the song goes. The hole on top of the bunny’s back is where you put your toothbrush when your done. This thing was really cool.
the back of my flyer…the flyer I was forced to put together in a matter of 5 minutes and still hold a sliver of bitterness about. :)
Here is one of the rooms of the gallery where my collection was displayed.
