My own life has a pretty funny relationship with paper. I grew up loving drawing, and of course that meant loving paper to a degree. Paper was, by far, the quickest and most comprehensive way we had to create something cool.
Today, the digital realm is vastly quicker and also vastly more comprehensive, so I think that's why I have gravitated toward the digital and away from the paper over the years. Recently, however, I've rekindled my patience with paper (I won't say my love; that's a bridge too far) since I have come to realize that everything hand written or drawn is suddenly precious and finite.
Recently I’ve been drawn to all things analog/physical as well and it’s more than paper - although I am hoarding the paintings my Grandpa did that we found in a storage locker. But also stuff like typewriters, my dad’s old 8mm film projector, my spiderman lunchbox. I was booking it all under nostalgia, but you’re right this stuff is going away fast so they are both artifacts of another world that my world now spans.
Nostalgia is precisely where a lot of that value comes from, I think! But yeah, everything made by human labor is going to be more scarce going forward. I suspect it might be A LOT more scarce, so some hand made things could become very valuable indeed one day. They're valuable in terms of being able to sell them, but also in terms of the satisfaction of tinkering with something that might not be made again, ever.
This is NOT me giving us both permission to be hoarders.
My own life has a pretty funny relationship with paper. I grew up loving drawing, and of course that meant loving paper to a degree. Paper was, by far, the quickest and most comprehensive way we had to create something cool.
Today, the digital realm is vastly quicker and also vastly more comprehensive, so I think that's why I have gravitated toward the digital and away from the paper over the years. Recently, however, I've rekindled my patience with paper (I won't say my love; that's a bridge too far) since I have come to realize that everything hand written or drawn is suddenly precious and finite.
Recently I’ve been drawn to all things analog/physical as well and it’s more than paper - although I am hoarding the paintings my Grandpa did that we found in a storage locker. But also stuff like typewriters, my dad’s old 8mm film projector, my spiderman lunchbox. I was booking it all under nostalgia, but you’re right this stuff is going away fast so they are both artifacts of another world that my world now spans.
Nostalgia is precisely where a lot of that value comes from, I think! But yeah, everything made by human labor is going to be more scarce going forward. I suspect it might be A LOT more scarce, so some hand made things could become very valuable indeed one day. They're valuable in terms of being able to sell them, but also in terms of the satisfaction of tinkering with something that might not be made again, ever.
This is NOT me giving us both permission to be hoarders.
:-D