"He who knows the soil an a subsoil of life knows, well that a fragment of a wall, a bench, a carpet, an umbrella are rich in thoughts or feelings when we, ourselves, are, and the association of inanimate objects with men and their reflection of them is one of the most interesting of terrestrial phenomena." Quincas Borba, Machado de Assis, chapter142
The Inventory of Everyday Life project started as research for the final dissertation of the graduate degree in Graphic Design and Humanities. Its object of study is the artefacts of everyday use as mediators of individual and collective memory.
The first inventory has literature as the guiding thread for interventions made on selected objects and sent to project participants. In the dynamics of the project, each participant received an object painted white and a literary text that mentioned this object. Each person should reimagine this object using their memories and the text as a basis—mediations between objects and memory, mediated by literary texts.
The final object was a book's conception, graphic design with records of the collection, selection and initial painting of things, and last interventions.
The collection
The selection
Erasing memory
Intervention
The book
"Noah converted the act of taking an inventory of all earth's creatures into an antidote to the destructiveness of time and death." Excerpt extracted from "The world inventory: Arthur Bispo do Rosário e Peter Greenaway", Maria Esther Maciel.
Interventions of Adriano, Alessandra, Anderson, Anna Karina, Clarissa, Daniel, Debora, Katia, Laura, Marco, Mariana, Kiko, Raphael, Reinaldo, Silvia, Suiane.
Projeto: Conception, photographs and graphic design of the book Inventory of Everyday Life. Final project of post graduate, Centro Universitário MariAntônia, USP, setembro de 2009.