I live in Silver Lake and have been coming to Elysian Park for over forty years. It’s a wonderful park. I come every other day to feed the crows. I used to bring my dog, but he’s fourteen and too old to make the walk now.
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the act of remembering
This blog serves as documentation of Souvenir, a project for the Elysian Park Museum of Art. Souvenir is a project of remembrance through collecting. I began by gathering small bits of natural debris from the park and made ink drawings of the natural objects onto postcards. Each card was inscribed with a personal memory of the park, provided by anonymous members of the local community. These memories were collected through a call on Facebook, personal interviews in the park, and internet sources. The cards were consequently mailed by members of the the EPMoA class.
We might say that this capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience is, in fact, exemplified by the souvenir. The souvenir distinguishes experiences. We do not need or desire souvenirs of events that are repeatable. Rather, we need and desire souvenirs of events that are reportable, events whose materiality has escaped us, events thereby exist only through the invention of the narrative.
-Susan Stewart, On Longing
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