Leanne Shapton's Important Artifacts is not officially about decluttering, but it's still of interest to those of us striving to release all that no longer works from our lives. It's also a wonderful work of creative imagination.
Fully titled Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry, the book is a fictional auction catalog of items remaining from a love affair that has now failed. Though the owners and story are invented, the catalog contains actual pictures of objects from the ridiculous to the sublime. Together, they chronicle the story of a relationship in a way that is sometimes wry, sometimes sad, and always telling. It's not easy to tell a love story in a new way, but Shapton does it beautifully. You can't but look at this book without wondering how your own objects would tell your life stories if they were organized and disposed of some day. Or, at least, I couldn't.
Shapton's first book, Was She Pretty?
, also mixes images and text to talk about love in a fresh and nuanced way. Browse the books and her illustrations, art, and ideas on her whimsical and inspiring website.
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