I constantly have my pockets full, because of this I have always been fascinated at what the rest of the world carries with them daily. This project is a study in the fact that each of us are as unique as the things we acquire. It is about the charms and talismans that may be lost without the person attached to them, the items we need and don’t, and the everyday things that we just cannot live without.
This is a simple project and is open to anyone willing to participate.
1. Empty and collate your pockets on a single surface.
2. Take a picture.
3. Draft a list of the contents
4. State yourself as the author, or keep it anonymous
5. Send all information to;
samsoncontompasis@gmail.com
with YPYP in the subject line.
DISCLAIMER- Be sure all documentation is covered or illegible
Pictured:
17 pens
2 highlighters
Pouch of business cards and 67 cents in change
$30 cash
2 pairs of sunglasses (one in cactus sunglass case)
2 Garbage Pail Kids cards
5 flash drives
Travel-sized hairbrush
Airport parking receipt
Bag of spicy beef jerky from Oscar’s Smokehouse
5 granola bars (3 Nature Valley, 2 Trader Joes)
6 ginger hard candies
3 Jolly Ranchers
Pair of chopsticks
Plastic fork
Metal spoon
6 tampons
7 wet-naps
1 Paperclip
Visine
2 bobby pins
4 hair sticks
Lizard flashlight
2 Tick ID cards
Tick remover with magnifying glass
Travel tissues
Prescription strength Ibuprofen
Motion sickness pills
Fruit leather
3 post-it note pads (blue, purple, and graph paper)
Tube of sunblock
Allergy pills
3 small travel sized bottles/tubes of lotion
2 toothbrushes (one foldable)
4 lip balms
2 perfume oils
Keys (including, separetly, my missing house keys)
Iphone charger
Packet of fruit snacks
Yellow wallet
Not pictured:
rotten banana that had gotten on everything and which inspired the excavation, and Silke Jacobs canvas, letter and cotton tote bag that now needs a good washing!
- Ziplock bag to hold small items
- Ibuprofen
- Benadryl capsule
- floss picks
- Rolaids
- contact lenses
- bandaids
- eyeglass wipes
- makeup sponge and pointed Q-tips
- contact lens drops
- Tide stain stick
- NARS concealer
- Clinique lipstick
- mirror
- tweezers
- phone charger
- phone wirewire
- phone plug
- earbuds
- FitBit watch
- mini Post-Its (to use as bookmarks)
- Gold Bond hand cream
- lip balm from Ommegang Brewery
- tissues
- 2 pens
- keys
-wallet
Lip Balm
Date Book
Bank Book
Address Book
Note Book
Wallet
Great Uncles Obituary
Uncles Obituary
Picture Of A Horse My Mom Drew
Stamps
Dean Koontz Book
Car Keys
I-Pod
Pens
Pack Of Blank Cards
Advil
Sunglasses And Case
GUCCI ! eyeglasses
Sunblock spf 50
My tough lady Cotelac wallet
Great lash mascara
Boomstick (multi purpose by Cindy Joseph)
Metro card
Hairpin
'New Jersey' hairclips; two small.
Hair elastic
Business cards
Clinique compact
Headphones for phone
Keys
Pens (4)
Notebook
Book to read (The Green Road by Anne Enright)
Awesome tiny Italian licorice
Various lip glosses and lipsticks (4)
Tag from a t shirt I bought
moleskine
keys
purple sharpie
micro sharpie
natan meteorite
hematite
moonstone
carnelian x2
change
tin
glass pipe
knife
2 dollars
pink bic lightersx2
pencil
charger
partial bill
change
container
lighter
matchesx2
siriacha packetx2
zig zag wrapsx2
silver paint marker
matches
hair tie
brass check
1922 liberty head silver dollar
1903 Liberty head silver dollar
*previously belonging to the estate of
Helen Frankenthaler
philippine coin
brass object*
magnet
mastodon ivory
can opener
guitar pick
bobby pin
cardx2
micro sd cardx2
w/case
condom
dental floss
tin
mail-folded
joseph conrad-hearts of darkness
cell phone
state id
cardsx11
bus pass
stewarts milk card
moma membership
"I love my mommy because..." Book
Toy airplane
Stuffed rat
Nail brush
Nail file
Journal
Pen
Wallet
Pulp fiction eyeshadow palette by urban decay
Naked on the run makeup kit by urban decay
Stila lip glaze
Buxom full on lip polish
Nars lipstick
MAC lipstick
Kat Von D everlasting liquid lipstick
Kate Spade back up phone battery
Candy
3 eos lip balms
Drum Sticks
Sugar Skulls Tin
Ear Plugs
Change
Monkey Paw
Knife
Ear Buds
Mini Hammer
Jewelry
Papers
Bottle Opener
Lighter
Keys
Pocket Watch
Pirate Dog Tag
Multi Colored Stone Skulls
Pins
Monkey Key
Die
Hematite Figure
Hematite Stone
Worry Stone
FD Metal of Valor
Keys with pepper spray
Bus fare
Broken sunglasses
Cigarettes
Wallet
Gum
Free bus ride ticket
Dispensary punch card
Red lipstick
Chocolate porter flavored chap stick
Secret Santa scrap
Eyeglasses wiper
Lip balm
change purse
wallet
$
receipts
business card (self and others)
lipsticks
eyeliner pencil
key
change
earplug
Migraine medication
Multi-tool
Pepper spray
Lip stick
Gum
Microfiber glass cloth
Band aides
Tampons
Wallet
Gym access wrist band
Receipts
Coupon
Pen
Keys
Eye shadow
Newports
Inhaler
-Small brown leather bag or satellite bag one.
Pill organizer with various vitamins, aspirin, naproxen, Mexican Valium and antidepressants.
Tampon
Flossing toothpicks
Ponytail holders
Toothbrush
Lens cleaning wipes
Wet nap
Alka seltzer
Small kit from hotel containing q tips and cotton
-Flowered bag or satellite bag 2.
Contains 3 lipsticks, 3 lip liners And an eye shadow pencil.
Pens
A mix cd I made for a friend
Spare glasses and case
Hoop earrings
Necklace with claw pendant and ring that belonged to my dad. (Always with me, usually wearing it).
Wallet with cards and $$
Deodorant
Anti dizziness medication (vertigo)
Lip balm
Harmonica and case that belonged to my dad
Socks (dirty)
Tissues
Change and crumbly ones
Assorted garbage and reciepts
Keys with pepper spray
Bus fare
Broken sunglasses
Cigarettes
Wallet
Gum
Free bus ride ticket
Dispensary punch card
Red lipstick
Chocolate porter flavored chap stick
Secret Santa scrap
Eyeglasses wiper
Coin purse
Dollar
Two tubes of lipstick pink and red
Business cards
sunglasses
Lipliner
Mascara
Butane torche
Perfume
Ring
Tampon
Dirty old Pill
Bone
Seashells
Tiny bow
Hair pin
Boston baked beans
Change
Wallet
Coin purse
Keys
Candy wrappers
Reciepts