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I Buy / Sell / Trade "stuff". Do you have a super well-loved “something”? An item that is too worn out, or too insignificant to anyone else to have any monetary value, but with too much sentimental value to throw out? Or some scrap of something; some piece of junk that you can't part with it because you never know when it will become worth its weight in silver (or gold!) because it is exactly what you need for some unforeseen project? I am collecting such items as part of an ongoing art project that will involve buying, selling and trading of these items, along with their stories. If you have an item that has a great story behind it I may be interested in adding it to my collection. Items can not have any significant resale value and shall be accompanied by a hand-written story telling the life of the piece and how it gained such personal value. These pieces will be saved from being thrown out, and the memories will be captured in the biography of the item that you write for me.

This is an ongoing project. If you are interested in buying, selling, or trading an item, or would like to share a story that comes to mind when hearing about the project, please contact me at alish@cocc.edu or comment on a post below.

See more participatory art on my website!

Here are the stories thus far.





Thursday, April 12, 2012

Significance of context and value


Photos by Sarah Barr

What a perfect piece for the idea of something being so insignificant that it has no value to anyone else, but has significant value to the owner.  This piece of wood trim is from a fellow student of mine at the Art Institute of Boston.  I told her about the collection I was working on and she remarked that she had just the item for me.  She had recently come across an old case of tools that also had this little piece of trim from when she had remodeled the kitchen of their old house...the house where she had raised her young children, the kitchen full of memories.
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