A submission from Sarah

My undergraduate thesis was a film and video installation titled ‘Domestic Taxonomies’, so there was a time in my recent life where I was thinking a lot about the objects in our homes - how we collect and display them, and how they are linked to history, memory, and the formation of imagined or fictional versions of both. Strangely enough, in trying to think about the objects I’ve discarded, I’ve had a hard time remembering any of them.

Collecting is a way to remember (the French word ’souvenir’ is the perfect descriptor of the objects we collect). When you throw something out, are you making a decision to forget?

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