For the past year my sister Bérénice, an artist, has been working on a project based in an art gallery and our mother's house nearby. My mother moved from this house to a smaller one over a year ago, and took only those things from the house she wanted or needed. Bérénice was fascinated by what had been left behind; as she says, "What is our relationship to the stuff we no longer need? What happens when something as big as a house is superseded by a new life? There are things stowed away in our houses that we only seem to find when we vacate them . . ." One of the project's participants, Mike Ladd, captures the poignancy of this in his film, Ungiven Gifts, which features the voices of Bérénice and our mother Anne, telling the story of the some of the objects left behind.
Bérénice's blog is also well worth a visit.
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