I have a huge collection of buttons collected over the past 60 years. Several years ago, when I still had an office, I pinned some of them to black strips of cloth and hung them from bookshelves. But I still had many others, which have been residing in two envelopes in the top of a closet.
Today, I went to the Museum of Art & Design to see if I could find a bowl or basket to hold the buttons. There was this lovely ceramic, handmade by Ana Martin (her name is etched on the bottom), and a label on the bottom reads “This is Latin America.” So I don’t know what country Ana Martin is in, but I’m guessing Mexico or Central America.
The subject matter of the buttons is varied: anti-censorship, pro-union, feminist, political campaigns, antiwar, and some just generally opinionated. Here are some of them.
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How fun to see the variety of buttons you've collected! (And sad to see the ones that still need wearing.) I love the image of these sayings "spilling" out of the ceramic bowl's head. What a great metaphor for our thoughts! I'll bet you have many stories connected to those buttons!
ReplyDeleteThank you! That would be an interesting project, to see what I remember about each of those buttons and how I came to have them. There's a button whose photo I meant to include, and I'll do my slice about that tomorrow. Thanks for the idea.
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