i came across a broken link on my already-in-need-of-updating photo site - this picture of objects people carried when they happened upon my studio during summer tours one year. i didn’t end up developing this direction very much, but i liked the graphic look and the cuteness of grouping familiar objects. i remember, when i first started the project, having been inspired by corny “psychics” on TV cop shows, who always wanted to hold some object that belonged to the (killer, victim, witness) with the premise that somehow a closely-held object was more saturated with their psychic info, like a long-steeped cup of tea or the trenchcoat of someone who smokes three packs a day. also, it’s interesting that so many people offered lip products as their subjects. click picture for big.