I bought four metal flat files from a surveying company that has fallen on hard times. The company did the surveying for Microsoft campus. You would think that would bring some security, but that is not the world we live in...
But, I got them for a song. Nearly a ton of metal files with inch thick drawers. I have the closet for them in the studio. After a lot of cleaning and hauling they are in place, and now I have a week or so left of sorting, inventory, cataloging and recording. Then, when I can again see my table tops, I go on.
Looking forward to having all works on paper where they can be easily accessed for viewers, collectors, friends, and buyers of all sorts. It will make exhibit preparation so much easier. No huge piles of portfolios and the strain of trying to get something out of the one on the bottom. And just to have the few bottom drawers for collections of little things. Origami papers, the small talismans and keys and jewels, rocks, feathers, little strange pots of pigment. Indian carved blocks, photos, fragments, butterfly wings, plastic horse, fish, frog, what is left of a leaf. Those bottom drawers there for my small friends. Avantika, Ava, Saylor, the next kin or neighbor kid who opens the Pandora's box. Or adds to it. Whatever.
1 comments:
A cabinet of curiosities! It's lovely to have at least a shelf of curious things.
And a new life for the files, rather than being thrown away.
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