What Lies Within:The Eclectic Collections of Andrea M. Noel

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Who doesn't collect something? What causes that urge? Maybe to relive and preserve our

childhood or revisit a memory and keep the past living in our present. These collections also

help ease our insecurities and anxieties from loss. This series is a photographic collection of things

of little concern to most people, but the way they are meticulously cared for and displayed gives

them a new life, a new meaning, in the form of visual storytelling. 

 

What began as a project documenting Andrea's 60 categories of collections, transformed

into a photographic journey that revealed discarded objects beautifully arranged in artful

designs. The experience of working with these collections has been transformative, as I reframed

the ordinary into the extraordinary. Her collections are an archive of what came before, reborn

as an entertaining, ever-changing story.

 

This is a story worth telling and I am privileged to share it.