Month: August 2020

Every Trash Can Is a Self-Portrait

Trash cans are ugly. They smell. But, like our own regrets and memories, we need trash cans to collect our life moments and take them away to make room for new ones. Every trash can in New York City is...Read More

Love Seat in the Street Light

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There is a special poignancy to abandoned furniture alone at night, empty and void of life in the street light. This love seat with its misshapen pillow is still full of life, void of cat scratches, coffee stains, and the...Read More

Temporary Lives

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New York City is a transient experience – a bustling hub of countless souls hustling from one place to another, one relationship to another, and one life to another. The byproducts and carnage of those constant transitions line the sidewalks...Read More

New York City trash reveals the inner lives of New Yorkers.

New York City Trash Stories

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The stories of New Yorkers, and New York City, are told through the items we abandon, discard, and decide – willingly and unwillingly – no longer serve our lives in beneficial ways. The story of us is best told by...Read More

NYC Trash Stories

Broken chairs. Tattered suitcases. The stories of New Yorkers.

Month: August 2020

Every Trash Can Is a Self-Portrait

Love Seat in the Street Light

Temporary Lives

New York City Trash Stories