A Commonplace Book

A commonplace book is a book of memorabilia, a scrapbook filled with recipes, quotes, letters, poems, legal formulas and so on. Originally the book was a memory aid and orators would “go” to metaphorical “places” to gather their arguments. They were places to which one could return for future reference. The commonplace book became a precursor to the modern reference book. This book takes ‘the commonplace’ – the ordinary and the everyday as well as the insignificant and references these moments within a commonplace book; as a way to recall and to make the insignificant significant. 

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