The Registry of Things pays attention to the small and seemingly forgotten things in our everyday lives. It asks, what can these things, and our relationship with them, tell us about the way we live in the world?

In an overwhelming context of loss and damage, it can feel like so many things that we care for are under threat – our environments, our livelihoods, where we live. While protection mechanisms on local, national and international levels are vital, they are not always adapted to the small and seemingly insignificant things that are important to us on a daily basis. Yet this attachment to the local, whether it’s something you handle every day or an object that holds memories, is equally important to protect.

This registry is an artistic experiment that gathers together the small, other-than-human objects, things and beings that we value in our lives, displaying them here so that they don’t fall through the cracks. In this process of gathering these things, we want to consider the imprints these things have had on our lives and those around us, and perhaps ask, what can they teach us about the way we live (or want to live) our day-to-day lives? What imprint does this small, everyday thing have on the global challenges we face today?

Send a photo of an object, a thing, or an other-than-human being that resonates with you.

Explain what it is.

Tell us why it matters.

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This is a created project by Glorija Lizde and Claire Rosslyn Wilson.