plans – Stories from A Closet of Errors

One day I’ll stop watching Poirot reruns and start organizing.

I will tame the chaos after finally putting to use hours of reading “how to declutter” posts.

I will give my closets the professional organizer treatment and end up with a curated wardrobe of classical pieces.

I will stop buying every piece of vintage luggage that crosses my path because I will not need the extra storage space anymore.

I will keep only what is necessary.

And will try to convince myself that minimalism is sexy.

I will stop trying to keep all the things my granddad used to collect.

And after I have managed to strip my life off all the frivolity , I will finally have the time to read all the books lying around.

I have never crossed any item of this to do list. Either because I’m too lazy or too busy procrastinating.

Or because I can’t force my maximalist nature to become something else and pretend I don’t find beauty in the poetry of everyday chaos.

The Poetry of List-Making

Honor thy error as a hidden intention

Oblique Strategies

My closet (s) is a mirror of my current self, my former self (selves) my personal movies, my plans for extreme style makeovers and all the characters I did not get to play.

Most of the items in this shop are (have been) mine and tell the story of who I am, who I was and of who I will (most probably) not become. These are the mistakes that make up my Closet of Errors. They are all intentional mistakes and part of of various attempts at writing my own story, at creating personas, at playing with possibilities.

As most of our mistakes have consequences, so did my errors. I have no more space for all of them and while not having a minimalist, capsule wardrobe approach to life, I need to make space for a whole new set of errors.

I hope you find some errors to identify and experiment with so I can share the story and intention behind them and see them transform into new narratives.