A collection of missing collections
There's two parts to what I'm bringing today. The objects you're probably handling right now are a collection of images I captured of my neighborhood this past summer, which the majority of burned down in the Eaton fire in January of 2025. I think this collection of images does a good job of representing the quantity of loss that my community experienced as well as the level of destruction that these homes have been reduced to. The other thing these objects present to the viewer is a way to get hands on with a disaster that's foreign to them: these images were captured from the spot they captured, and have not been altered. What you're holding was in a natural disaster zone. A collection of some of the instant images The other side of this is the container that I've carried these in for the past 8 months. This container contained some items that I purchased for myself the Christmas before the fires as an early Christmas gift, and I really hadn't spent muc...