Studio Archive: Small Things / by Cody Lee Edison

In chronological order from left to right:

  1. Petrified wood collected outside of Holbrook, Arizona

  2. A rattle snake’s rattle (a gift from Antonio)

  3. An album full of tintype portraits from the 19th century (a gift from my Pops)

  4. Roadrunner in the desert tile from the Rainbow Man store in Santa Fe, New Mexico

  5. A polished petrified whale bone found on the coast of Santa Barbara (a gift from Al Blair)

  6. A Mexican trinket from Chimayo, New Mexico

  7. The canister of the first roll of 16mm film that I shot with a Bolex

  8. Big Sur jade purchased on the isolated hw 1 freeway junction during the 2017 closures (due to a bridge failure and landslide)

  9. Portrait album from the 19th century (#3 open)

  10. Tin and wood hand with milagro from Mexico

  11. A postcard from the peak base camp of the Annapurna Sanctuary (sent by Macdowell Whittington in 2014)

  12. Eagle carved in bone from New Mexico

  13. 2020 Bob Baker Marionette Theater pin

  14. Jade skull from New Mexico

  15. Shell fossil collected at Deep End Ranch in Santa Paula, California

  16. Desert rose (a gift from Leticia Gonzales)

  17. Christine’s birthday rock collected from the Andrew Molera State Park in Big Sur, California on June 14, 2020

  18. A postcard of Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Cody in Montreal, Canada photographed by David Notman, 1885 (a gift from Rebecca Solnit)

  19. A sperm whale’s tooth

  20. A 2020 holiday card by Kat Kinnick

  21. A card I was required to wear when ridding in a horse parade (calbagata) and procession for the visit of Santo Niño de Atocha in Santa Paula, California

  22. Turritella fossil shell collected in Topanga Canyon on July 4, 2019

  23. Pueblo cowboy hat ceramic from New Mexico (a gift from my Pops)

  24. 2001-D Sacagawea gold dollar coin collected the date of release in Ketchum, Idaho

  25. Petrified wood collected outside of Winslow, Arizona