i don’t know what to do.
i see all these beautiful things. i want to use them all.
i want to use the typography on the binding of an old book. i want to use the shapes printed on a box. i want to use the graph of the metro north railroad arrival times. i want to use all of my old sketchbook pages. i want to use every single photograph i see. i want to use the napkins from different restaurants.
the problem is, i don’t want to ruin them, but i want to keep them and organize them somehow.
i could keep a sketchbook and paste all of these visual things in there, but i don’t think i could bear it, since i have so much respect for the space they are surrounded in.
i could keep a binder full of plastic sleeves and fill them with these visual things, but plastic sleeves just ruin everything.
it’s frustrating. i want to be able to organize these things i see, and make new designs and images from them, but i don’t know how. there’s too much to organize.
maybe i’ll just spend the rest of my life documenting the visual things that grab my attention. but i don’t know how to document them!
it’s driving me crazy.
i go through all of my folders from parsons and even earlier, and i love every single half finished print, sketch, photo, and layout that i have. so much that it kills me to put them back in the folder. but i don’t want to cut them up, or pin them on the wall because i think “someday i’ll use this”.
maybe photography is the answer.
maybe i could take photos of everything, even photos. then i end up completely respecting everything i see, and leave it in its environment.
i don’t know.
it’s just been on my mind.
by the way, i’m home.
and i have my own room.
i’m still moving in, but i am just sitting on my bed enjoying it.
i’ll see you soon.
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