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1. I have archived much of my life through collected objects.
2. I have moved a smaller studio, making it necessary that I get rid of a lot of these objects.
3. I have done so by using them as the raw material for one enormous collage, created inside a 30-yard dumpster.
4. Oh, also, I have photographed around 500 of these objects and will display them here, accompanied by a brief history of each item.

RANGERS HOCKEY PUCK

7.4 in diameter x 2.4 cm
My father gave this to me when I was 9. As I remember it, I actually saw the game where it was caught. I was watching a televised game where a puck flew into the stands (a relatively rare occurrence). I remember a man in a tan trench coat stand up and make a sweet grab of it. Days or weeks later, my dad gave me this puck, saying a friend of his caught it at a game. I asked if his friend wore a tan trench coat. He said yes, but I was 9, so there may have been an element of appeasing a young imagination, that smaller sense of world scale that ties all observed actions together irrespective of the actual hugeness of the surrounding world. 
at 12:18 AM
Posted by Mac Premo

2 comments:

  1. kitty joeApril 12, 2011 at 8:47 AM

    dear mac,
    i love love love this project. the idea of digitizing nostalgia seems strange but is an oddly effective in aid of letting go. i have employed this tactic myself, albeit in a less organized, less aesthetically beautiful fashion, occasionally on my blog. beautiful project. looking forward to seeing the dumpster.

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  2. Mac PremoApril 13, 2011 at 12:34 AM

    Thanks Kitty Joe. Taking the few minutes 'alone' with these objects as I photograph each one really is an unexpected aid in being to able to relinquish them. And I, too, am looking forward to seeing the dumpster. Got any leads?

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