Archiving and Sortganzing – musings about creative life – Dave Olson's Creative Life Archive

Archiving and Sortganzing – musings about creative life

Continuing on a conversation about why I enjoy, and even think it’s important in some cases, to curate and archive one’s own artifacts, ephemera and life story

Reasons include:

Documenting your own “hero” journey

Creating your own cultural museum

Respect for these items which found me after so many were lost

Puzzles are fun! And rebuild neuro pathways

Enjoyment of the tactility of analogue projects to find a state of flow

A bit of commentary about how this came to me, the passing the parents, items scattered at storage lockers, friend’s homes, forgotten places, mention of heroes, like Henry David Thoreau, Vincent, van Gogh, Yumeji Takehisa

Plus the situation of moving home so many times, growing up, living in vans, tents being the “hippie on the couch”, housesitting, cat, sitting, home, garden, more tents, more vans, more backpacks, etc. and how that impacts my creative life – with #daveo50 as an example of Personal Archeology

And a bit about what comes next after “archiving the archive” and being inspired by my wife’s singing, tea ceremony, and arborist work to do something big – I’ve made documentary films, songs, spoken, word, presentations, poems, scrapbooks, etc. and now I want to make some books and press something on vinyl

Of course, share my affection for you, my love of postal culture and respect for creativity in general, and how special this land and barn is to me and how grateful I am to Ryoko’s ancestors for providing and my hope that it will remain in family for generations to come

namechecks for  @PaprikaGirl_JP  and  @softypapa  & H. Al-A et al

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