Twisted Preservation

Our subdivision was surrounded by abandoned farms.  I used to ride my bike along the eroded red dirt gullies determined to reach the gutted farmhouse and the massive barn and outbuildings. Think...

https://twistedpreservation.com/2022/01/27/one-night-stand-a-complicated-utopia/

I have imagined how museum folks felt as they stood in the gallery halls of the Louvre, Uffizi, or Victoria & Albert Museum moments before they started to remove the artwork from the walls or beg...

https://twistedpreservation.com/2021/04/02/protecting-what-matters/

Samantha Smith: Reader/ Contributor, Watson Harlan: Contributor “L’amour est à réinventer. (Love must be reinvented)” Délire I: Foolish Virgin, The Infernal Bridegroom”,  Arthur Rimb...

https://twistedpreservation.com/2020/11/03/visualizing-a-new-form-of-organizational-relationships-and-behaviors-in-non-profits/

GETTING TO PASAQUANYou don’t just happen upon Pasaquan Estate, the built environment created by the visionary St. E.O.M.  You really have to make a committed effort to get in a car and drive t...

https://twistedpreservation.com/2020/06/27/one-night-stand-burying-the-lead/

Who Told Us That History Is Dead? It’s Very Much Alive, In Our Faces, and We Don’t Like It. As someone who has been privileged to help run history & preservation organizations for the last 30...

https://twistedpreservation.com/2020/06/02/systemic-racism-of-preservation/

I don’t suggest that this is the most professional way to experience museum collections, but I love getting lost in collections storage spaces.  Although I am aware of various structural ways ...

https://twistedpreservation.com/2020/05/17/the-usefulness-of-things/

This “One Night Stand” almost didn’t happen.  As I sat across the table from Fabrice Duffand, International Delegate for the French preservation organization REMPART, and Pierre Housieaux,...

https://twistedpreservation.com/2019/08/11/one-night-stand-preserving-the-pieces/

One of my most difficult memories as a student of architecture is when I presented a project to a room full of people and one of the critics stood up, walked over to my meticulously drawn images ...

https://twistedpreservation.com/2019/05/18/the-allusion-of-answers/

Eastland Mall was the core of my adolescent social life. The enormous regional, retail complex was, at the time, the largest mall of its type in the state of North Carolina. Its parking lot was s...

https://twistedpreservation.com/2018/12/04/first-kiss/

Who cares if I can make a chair without electric machinery?  Oddly, I ask myself this question all of the time.  As a member of the team at a living history site, where among other things, we d...

https://twistedpreservation.com/2018/10/20/the-life-of-obsolete-actions/