Caitlin’s Things: 100 days of things

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Written By Dan Azic

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I love my partner, and she loves things. When we moved in together I saw firsthand how sentimental she got, even about functional objects to which I’ve never attached much meaning – spoons, books, old ticket stubs. Everything has a story. These stories make up who she is. I didn’t know all the stories, but I wanted to. My goal was to learn about Caitlin by learning about 100 of her things in our home. How much do you know about your loved one’s things?

 
View fullsize 100 | Flowers, 2020 “These are the first flowers you ever gave me. I remember we put them in your grandma's tupperware so I could take them home and dry them. The project is about the story of my life and when I think about it, that was the m
View fullsize 099 | Note, 2015 “At the beginning of grad school, I felt like I was really bad at talking to people, which I think was probably just in my head. So I made this list, kind of to have these thoughts at the front of my mind...like a pep talk to
View fullsize 098 | Big cards, 2022 “So when I was growing up, my grandma Florence loved playing cards. Some of my fondest memories growing up is playing cards with her. I saw these cards when I was home and I thought, my grandma probably would have used t
View fullsize 097 | Drawing, 2009 “I remember we had a really good teacher. We would spend like three hours drawing eggs with charcoal.” #100dayproject #the100dayproject #photography #love #partner #girlfriend #things #caitlinsthings #herthings #cait
View fullsize 096 | Book, 2014 “My second year of school, I took a medieval history class. I had to pick an object in one of the museums on campus and I picked a sensor, the thing that you swing with incense. After that paper, I became obsessed with the his
View fullsize 095 | Goggles, 2021 “I bought these so that I could see what I was looking at, which was actually a really big step for me because I'm really afraid of deep water.” #100dayproject #the100dayproject #photography #love #partner #girlfrien
View fullsize 094 | Speakers, 2010 “I got these in high school. I would play music in my room all the time… when I moved to college I brought them with me and I literally just have had them ever since.” #100dayproject #the100dayproject #photog
View fullsize 093 | Book, 2014 “I've never really been drawn to journals. I don't really keep a journal and I don't read a lot of journals, but I read this book maybe three times when I was in Vienna. At one point in the book, she wrote ‘This was a f
View fullsize 092 | Chair, 2015 “I really wanted a big comfy reading chair to sit in because I knew I was gonna be doing a lot of reading my first year of grad school. I found it on Craigslist and I met this woman at this storage unit in the West Village. I
View fullsize 091 | Telescope, 2017 “I could see the moon some nights from my bed. So I was like, wouldn't it be funny if I had a telescope and I could lie in bed and look at the moon? A friend came over and was like, ‘what the hell is that?’ I
View fullsize 090 | Photo, 2014 “I stared at this piece for a really long time… she had basically taken like 20 balls of ice and suspended them on like chicken wire against a white background and they just were melting. It was very ephemeral…
View fullsize 089 | Cookbooks, 2015 – “One of the things I love the most about Italy is the regions. The way that you can go from one city to another and they'll have a totally different food culture.” #100dayproject #the100dayproject #pho
View fullsize 088 | Business card, 2016 “I probably had like 40 of these rewards cards. It was the kind of thing where I'd be sifting through my bag to find one every time I went there.” #100dayproject #the100dayproject #photography #love #partner #g
View fullsize 087 | Recipe card, 2019 “I just was getting sick of looking up recipes on my phone all the time, so I found these to write down my favorites.” #100dayproject #the100dayproject #photography #love #partner #girlfriend #things #caitlinsthi
View fullsize 086 | Photo, 2013 “This is literally where I lived when I was in college. I used to go there all the time with my friend Olivia and we would sit in the window and read and work. Olivia used to just camp out there all day.” #100dayprojec
View fullsize 085 | Flash cards, 2011 “I think I kept these because this class was seriously amazing. Betsy Sears taught it, she was great… it just reminds me of how long I've been doing this for.” #100dayproject #the100dayproject #photography
View fullsize 084 | Label maker, 2015 “Growing up, my dad had a label maker. He used to label all the boxes in the house. When I moved into my first apartment in New York, I was like, oh, I'll get a label maker because I too would like to label all of my be
View fullsize 083 | Book, 2020 “We stumbled into this book store, what an amazing store… one of those amazing places that had shelves up to the ceiling and a million treasures to find.” #100dayproject #the100dayproject #photography #love #part
View fullsize 082 | Notecard, 2018 “I think this is from the first time I taught an undergrad class. One of my students gave me this thank you card with a really long note inside saying that she had enjoyed the semester. I think I might have cried when I go
View fullsize 081 | Tray, 2013 “I never thought of myself as a collector, but I guess I do have kind of like the beginnings of a lot of collections?” #100dayproject #the100dayproject #photography #love #partner #girlfriend #things #caitlinsthings #he
 
 

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