{"id":8091,"date":"2017-01-25T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=8091"},"modified":"2017-01-27T01:11:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T05:11:45","slug":"things-that-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2017\/01\/25\/things-that-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Things That Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 10th of January, the Hatcher Graduate Library housed\u00a0a gallery called Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan.
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Of all the pieces in the room, this one\u00a0spoke\u00a0the loudest. You couldn’t see it until you trekked\u00a0all the way to the back of the display.\"img_3951\"<\/p>\n

On a blank slab lies hundreds of different stickers, different colors, different sizes, different feelings, different messages. People decorate their belongings with these stickers to express themselves. Each sticker could represent an experience they had, awareness, or perhaps be a simple\u00a0little memento. It takes an ordinary object and adds\u00a0a dollop\u00a0of what makes you, you. They are\u00a0like two dimensional capsules for a memory. Whether or not there is\u00a0a climatic\u00a0story attached, it marks an encounter that perhaps you share with people or sets you apart.<\/p>\n

The stickers could be like the people we meet throughout our lives. We start with a\u00a0blank slate. As we begin to make connections with people, they stick. When\u00a0we lose touch with people, their stickers slowly peel off. When we find one we like, we preserve it.\u00a0Over time, some are basically\u00a0inscribed\u00a0on the slate.<\/p>\n

One sticker may be your mom, the first one on the board who you can’t always see underneath all the chaos of new people, but you know she’s there.<\/p>\n

Others could\u00a0be those\u00a0best friends who may not be the biggest stickers, but they\u00a0are\u00a0the brightest and\u00a0most visible in the larger scheme of things,\u00a0the waiter\u00a0that made you laugh so hard you couldn’t breathe,\u00a0that cute boy with the New York accent who you finally got a chance to know.<\/p>\n

We learn a thing or two from these people. Together, they\u00a0create a\u00a0collection of memories and a mural\u00a0of your past. It’s the entire collection that tells\u00a0your story, not just a single sticker.\u00a0Do these “stickers” define you? Think of it as a foundation. Your past may\u00a0not define who you are; your past may prepare you for who you are to become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the 10th of January, the Hatcher Graduate Library housed\u00a0a gallery called Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan. Of all the pieces in the room, this one\u00a0spoke\u00a0the loudest. You couldn’t see it until you trekked\u00a0all the way to the back of the display. On a blank slab lies hundreds of different stickers, different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8111,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8091\/revisions\/8111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}