Cultural Project: Found Bookmarks
My friend Mene Tekel explained a discovery he made: People tend to leave lots of bookmarks in books they donate to thrift stores, and no one bothers to remove them. Now, plain old bookmarks sound boring, but that's not all we found.
After raiding about ten stores, we had gathered about 150 pieces. I categorized and scanned them as follows: Actual Bookmarks (28), Business Cards (5), Photos (11), Receipts (13), Tickets (16), Handwriting (27), and Misc. (49).
My original intent was to make a giant collage out of them, but it was hard to make sense of them all. Instead, I opted to matte each piece and put them in a web gallery. The categories are still intact, but they're all separate and in no particular order of preference.
The people who've heard about this project only ask why. This time, I really don't know. I think there's something about fragments of information and images that intrigues me. It's like life is one big mystery and these bookmarks are small clues leading up to some sort of high perspective. Yeah, that sounds complicated to me too.
Click this here giant button to enter the gallery:
(Tip: Use arrow keys to navigate.)
ALTERNATELY: Download a .zip of the gallery images. Cause that Flash gallery sucks.