A pair of hands sorting old photographs and handwritten notes on a wooden table.

Notes from around the house

About

I am a curious collector of projects, photographs, recipes, television, film, vintage radio, homemaking and miscellaneous cultural debris. This site is my digital house: part archive, part notebook and part cabinet of curiosities.

From the collection of Madeline Merced

This site is less a portfolio than a house with too many interesting rooms.

Inside are projects, photographs, recipes, films and television, vintage broadcasts, domestic experiments, collections, useful things, useless things and the occasional object whose purpose has been lost to history.

The archive is intentionally broad. Interests change. Collections grow. New rooms appear.

Rather than separating creative work from everyday curiosity, this space keeps them together. A project may sit beside a recipe; an old radio program may lead to a photograph; a television costume may lead somewhere entirely unexpected.

The result is an ongoing record of making, noticing and collecting.

You are welcome to look around.

Wander In