Ellie Brown Photography/ Altered Books
Alex, 16, Student
2010
digital c-print
20x30
What she was willing to part with:
Abercrombie flyer job offer (“they walked up to the mall and offered me a job, I don’t really shop at Abercrombie but I guess that’s a compliment”)
Starbucks bag with coffee cake
Blow Pop lollipop
Dum-Dum lollipop
Two Juicy fruit gum wrappers
Movie ticket receipt
AHAZ receipt, $141.13,
Pieces of rectangular construction paper, “stuff from a NFTY event”
Panda Express fortune cookie, “fortune is on your side, play it for all it is worth”
Lyrics to “If you want to sing out sing out” from Cat Stevens
A half pint of Arrowhead bottled water
Packaging for a fake piercing “for Halloween”
Ziploc bag filled with 3 Advil and Prilosec
Squashed cookie dough Balance Bar
Gum wrapper

What she was unwilling to part with:
Traveler braces pick
Butterfly hairclip
L’Oreal True Mac powder
Ray-Ban sunglasses
Nutmeg and vanilla body shop lotion
Brown leather belt
Nametag from a Jewish youth conference
$1.11 in change
Two single dollar bills
One pink Chapstick
Three mechanical pencils
Homer’s the Odyssey “names and places” flashcards
Avatar ticket stub
Interim driver’s license
Ipod, 120 gig
One packet Peppermint Stride gum
Three Prilosec pills
Homemade stress ball (“I'm keeping this”)
One cough drop “from the nurses office”
Full half pint of Arrowhead bottled water
MapQuest directions
One pack Juicy Fruit gum
Neutrogena skin clearing concealer
Fuchsia blackberry
Garage door opener
Retainer case with retainer
Keys
Gold wallet
Smoochers cinnamon candy (“my boyfriend got them for me a s a joke because I like cinnamon”)
Mac Fresh Brew lipstick
Maxi pad
‘10% off’ coupon, American Apparel
Vintage sunglasses, broken metal ball chain
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