The Newsfeed
Sticky notes become thousands of tiny canvases for this Seattle artist
Season 7 Episode 33 | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
“I thought it would be amazing to document my life in something that was meant to be thrown away.”
“I thought it would be amazing to document my life in something that was meant to be thrown away.”
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The Newsfeed is a local public television program presented by Cascade PBS
The Newsfeed
Sticky notes become thousands of tiny canvases for this Seattle artist
Season 7 Episode 33 | 2mVideo has Closed Captions
“I thought it would be amazing to document my life in something that was meant to be thrown away.”
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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I'm Venice Buhain, in for Paris Jackson.
Every night for 20 years, a Seattle artist has made one small piece of art.
Multimedia journalist Taylor Mirfendereski shows us the tiny canvas Clare Johnson uses and the stories hidden in every piece.
-Seattle artist Clare Johnson is sketching her morning swim.
-It was just so pretty.
-A sticky note isn't where most of us would save a memory, but that's the point.
-I thought it would be amazing to document my life in something that was meant to be thrown away.
I just started doing a nightly post-it drawing.
This is the very first one I made.
2005, feeling a little broken.
-Her project, A Life In Sticky Notes, has spanned almost her entire adult life.
-This is election day...2018.
2009.
I mean, these ones are really from, like, last week.
-Each night, just one moment makes the cut.
-It's of the encore performance.
I needed a way to hold memories and make my life feel visible as a queer person.
2010 wasn't a great year.
You can see some heartbreak happening.
This one I found out that I was getting divorced.
-But even in the hardest years.. -What really gets saved are these small moments each day that are really powerful to help us get through harder times.
Somebody had a bubble machine in their apartment window.
-She's now sharing her project in talks across the state, hoping it helps others give weight to their small joys.
-This project shows how many little tiny things are inside each person that we would never know about.
-For Johnson, so far that 6719 little moments.
And tonight she'll save one more.
-Next time we'll tell you about the restoration of a program that distributes thousands of books to kids in King County.
I'm Venice Buhain.
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