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Gleaning at the City Dump #21

5/25/2012

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I gleaned today for three hours - late morning and early afternoon.  This was the day of the "photo motherlode."  I quickly got to know the folks in one of the trucks that drove into the bay to off-load their trash.  I had noticed that they were tossing quite a pile of vintage photos,  many of them dating back several decades.  I quickly introduced myself as one of the five artists working on a gleaning art grant, etc. and asked if I could take the photos off their hands for use in some of my projects. They seemed glad to have me retrieve them from the piles of trash.  This was the first bunch of photos that I found:
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After having a better look once I got the boxes of photos back to my cart,  these are just a few of the kinds of treasures that turned up: 
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This was truly one of those "motherlode" finds for me today.   I've always enjoyed using old photos in my assemblage work in the past, wanting to create a new story for these "unknowns" in my own way.   A couple of my "older" pieces using vintage photos:
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