In Anticipation of Obsolescence: An Archive of Old Economies (2007-ongoing)
An exercise in preservation, a slow dance with old economies.
Beck's Beer Bottle
Limited Edition Beck’s beer bottle, issued in 2000. Art for the bottle created by Tracy Emin. Signed by the artist in the bathroom of the ICA, London at a party in the same year. Eluded Ziggy’s grasp in the summer of 2007, Toronto.
Yugoslav-era anchovy tin, Karlovačko ink bottle
Found in my grandmother’s closet in Zagreb in the autumn of 2002. The description on the anchovy tin is written in German and Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian.
Vintage proofs of Tanya
Proofs of my sister’s Grade 3 school photo, 1987
Houseplant in a mason jar
Philodendron, unintentionally starved by Zenia in the summer of 2007.
A Moveable Feast, 1st Edition
First edition of Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, gifted by Jamie in the winter of 2003, mishandled by Dorian in the winter of 2005.
Ticket stub for The Matrix II
Cinema stub for The Matrix II, watched on old recliners with Rebecca and Katie in the Syndicate Building, Belgrade, in the summer of 2003
Luggage sticker
Yugoslav Airlines luggage sticker, discovered in a box in 2006.