Here’s an interesting story from the Baltimore Sun about a magazine called Found, which publishes hundreds of what its creator, Davy Rothbart calls “finds”: “discarded ticket stubs, old birthday cards, notebook doodles, ripped-up love notes, grocery lists, yellowed photographs, lost homework assignments, rusty keys, and other detritus galore, plucked from trash bins and sidewalks across the globe.”
Librarians are mentioned, along with janitors, police officers and postal carriers, as people who regularly find discarded objects that are recreated as treasure.
A Voyeur
I admit to a fondness for finding notes — little glimpses into the private lives of strangers. I incorporate them into my art projects. You’d think that working in a high school library would provide enough fodder for a lifetime, but what with IM, text messaging, and email, the note crop just isn’t what it used to be.