Clutter Creation

We are having what in NYC parlance is called a stoop sale this weekend. Here’s the invite David designed for it. (Please note the lovely Schwinn Stingrays for sale and the Atari…) But it’s hard moving, getting rid of stuff, though it does lend itself to creative activity. I myself will be making cookies and cake but that’s not the sort of creativity I mean. Keira Alexander, creative director at the Sundance Channel in NY, decided to change her life and leave her flat and sell off all her amazing collected possessions. She and David Brown (not the one who blogs for 30 gms) made a book called “Everything Must Go,”  documenting it.  (It’s available from very cool self publishing website lulu.com.) Other book suggestions I’ve heard about include giving your unwanted stuff to a charity shop, but with the things you desperately want to keep, take a picture of them and write down their stories—when you got the items and why they’re important to you. Then turn it into a book. Indeed, our cultural consumption can be good to get rid of things and make more things.

Jennifer Kabat
Posted on Wednesday, 11th of January 2006 Permalink