keys, collection project

these drawings are about life size, key size. the keys are all for locks that don't exist anymore. or they just don't work, like the one that broke in half-- that one is for my car door which does still exist. the two car keys together are both for cars that are now totalled. one is for my old volvo, the one i had since i was 16 and got totalled a few years ago, the other one is from eleanor's saab which was known as herbie, someone ran into it while it was parked on the street. a lot of the keys are from dana's giant keyring. he had a lot of keys that had outlived their buildings, one for a cabin that was destroyed and a gate that was torn from its posts. weight of time and memory. sometimes we carry things around that we don't really need. we can't let them go because of what they mean, what they might still open.