Fall Harvest Moon
Right now, I’m not going to order them, just trying to think of objects that might show who I’ve been, what I’m becoming. This is the first pass. May need more, more specificity. Some of these may come off and others added. But, it’s a start.
When I do this fully, like the British Museum did, I’ll provide label copy for each object.
Daisy: a green Velveteen Rabbited toy of Dagwood and Blondie’s dog. With eyes resewed and body stitched.
The Red Celica
The doorknob above the third shelf of our first apartment on Lincon Street in Alexandria
The coal augur in the same apartment building
The cave friends and I dug in the backyard of 311 Monroe Street
A stack of comic books
A plastic lunch tray from elementary school
A mat at Miss May’s kindergarten
Mortar boards with tassels moved
A draft card
The Greenwich Hotel in NYC
Angkor Wat
St. Winifred’s Holy Well
Castle Conwy
A dismantled alarm clock
Sodium in water
A beer bottle
A pack of Pall Malls
A deck of cards
A book, let’s say a specific book, The Glass Bead Game
Goya’s Dr. Arrieta
The Henry Moore sculpture honoring Enrique Fermi at the University of Chicago
A bible, the RSV
A contract for deed
3122 153rd ave. NW
A table at D’amico’s Cucina
An auditorium in Toronto
A study carrel in the corner on the third floor at United Theological Seminary
A wicker basket
A blue uniform
A pair of skis
An iron lung
A 1950 Chevy Panel Truck
A Dayton-Hudson Corporation Foundation board room late at night
A bassinet in an office
Stamps from the Vatican Post Office
A jar of Artemis Honey
A bill for an act: M.E.E.D.
An apartment building on the West Bank
A dog collar
A loaded trailer
A cemetery
A cut off pony tail
A desk
A computer
Make-up
An All-Saint’s day processional in Colombia, outside Bogota
