Twisted Preservation Blog

  • One-night Stand: Crafting Utopia

    One-night Stand: Crafting Utopia

    Our subdivision was surrounded by abandoned farms.  I used to ride my bike along the eroded red dirt gullies determined to reach the gutted farmhouse and the massive barn and outbuildings. Thinking back, it was a dangerous but incredibly rich way to spend my time.  This one particular farm looked like the residents just left Read more

  • Protecting What Matters

    Protecting What Matters

    I have imagined how museum folks felt as they stood in the gallery halls of the Louvre, Uffizi, or Victoria & Albert Museum moments before they started to remove the artwork from the walls or began covering them with sandbags so that they could store them safely away from the threat of German bombs. I Read more

  • Visualizing a new form of organizational relationships and behaviors in non-profits

    Visualizing a new form of organizational relationships and behaviors in non-profits

    Samantha Smith: Reader/ Contributor, Watson Harlan: Contributor “L’amour est à réinventer. (Love must be reinvented)” Délire I: Foolish Virgin, The Infernal Bridegroom”,  Arthur Rimbaud, Photographs used for educational and non-commercial purposes only. When Rimbaud stated, “Love must be reinvented”, he was speaking of how standard models of relationships and behaviors did not fit with his needs Read more

  • One-night Stand: Burying the Lead

    One-night Stand: Burying the Lead

    GETTING TO PASAQUANYou don’t just happen upon Pasaquan Estate, the built environment created by the visionary St. E.O.M.  You really have to make a committed effort to get in a car and drive through the two-lane backroads of rural Georgia to find it.  I knew that Georgia consisted of miles and miles of pine barrens, Read more

  • Systemic Bias & Racism of Preservation

    Systemic Bias & Racism of Preservation

    Who Told Us That History Is Dead? It’s Very Much Alive, In Our Faces, and We Don’t Like It. As someone who has been privileged to help run history & preservation organizations for the last 30 years, I feel compelled to call out, from my limited experience,  what I see as not only my own, Read more

  • The Usefulness of Things

    The Usefulness of Things

    I don’t suggest that this is the most professional way to experience museum collections, but I love getting lost in collections storage spaces.  Although I am aware of various structural ways that collections are divided and assessed, I think breaking down those divisions can produce new realizations. I interact with libraries in a very similar Read more