Estate Ephemera
Gallery
After wondering into an estate sale in my neighborhood recently, after thinking I struck gold with a dusty box of discarded oddments I found in the attic, I was told I missed a trove of eye, Graphics, U&lc, Avant Garde, and other iconic design-centric publications that had been shelved for decades. While somewhat heart-broken, I possibly found something even more special in what I would have most certainly overlooked.
Those of us who hold onto little tiny pieces of paper from our own lives, for whatever reason, may never go back and inspect these archives. Why do we have them? What happens to them when we're gone? Certainly nobody cares. But as I sifted through a lifetime of flotsam because it mostly pertained to my own interests, the body of this collection had its own narrative. I've left out the personal affects here, for the family's privacy. But perusing the reference and source materials that were kept alongside diplomas, photos, souvenirs and accolades—it told a story of a careful and inspired work ethic that came second only to family. Just down the street from my home, a lifetime of meticulous collecting and discarding, cutting and pasting, drafting and planning, echoing through our neighbors' attics.
