still life
I think I tend to do this at home too, but especially when traveling, I like to surround myself with what are essentially souvenirs in the very literal sense of the word. I love the word souvenir (from the French for “memory”). I think many people do this, Todd Selby, does a great job capturing this, as I have mentioned before. Here is my little still life, a sort of shrine to travel and adventure: some stones and glass from sites visited on this trip, a skull eraser procured at the giftshop at the Pinault collection, some lavendar I purchased from a street vendor here, a little Victorian-inspired brass clip in the shape of a hand I got at a shop in Vienna, a ceramic amulet given to me at the Iran pavillion at the Venice Biennale, and the prettiest bottle of mineral water I have ever had on a train (ok, so I drank the water).
Hi Amy. I really enjoyed looking at this. Seems like you are having a great time.
June 28th, 2009 at 2:55 pm