Life: 10 x 10

Helga Steppan is a Swedish artist who has created an installation piece that is either called All My Things, Be long apart, Belongings Apart, or See-through (I can’t determine what the whole darn thing is called). She has sorted all of her belongings according to color. Clothes, dishes, pencils, furniture – it looks like she’s got almost all of it (though she did publish a list of things she forgot).  The Man and Eve website has pictures of all the color groupings.

Probably a much more creative, fulfilling and gentle way to realize how much stuff you have compared to our move-out fiasco. Almost wish we’d packed by color. It would at least make unpacking somewhere down the road much more aesthetically pleasing.

♣

Angela

We need to simplify. There’s too much stuff hanging around our lives. Even if we don’t see it, it’s taking up psychic space. This blog is going to be about our quest to reduce the amount of stuff in our lives.

For a taste of how we realized that we needed to do this, view the following images.

These are our books, spread out on the floor before we moved. Well organized, but so many!

At least books don't take up very much space. That's 531 books there.

This is our storage unit after we moved. Packed to the gills.