Curatology & The Museum You Carry

This work began while death cleaning after my father’s passing. As I moved through his things, I realised I wasn’t just sorting objects, I was meeting a life. Every kept item held a decision, a moment of care, a memory of what mattered. Grief sharpened my attention. It slowed me down enough to notice.

I have moved across countries and cultures more than fifteen times. Each move asked the same question again and again: what do I carry, and what do I leave behind? Over time, I began to see that these choices were shaping me. The objects I kept became quiet companions, anchoring me through change.I believe we are all already curators. Each of us carries a personal museum: a living, shifting collection of objects, traces, and imagined things that tell the story of who we have been, and who we are becoming.

✨ The Museum You Carry ✨ is not fixed. It grows, sheds, and rearranges itself as life unfolds. As this work deepened, six rooms began to take shape: Collection Room, Transformation Room, Connection Room, Becoming Room, Echo Room, and Imagination Room. They are not rooms you pass through once, but places you return to at different moments in life. I will continue to share them as the practice evolves.

This is becoming more than an idea. It is a practice I want to offer to others – an invitation to pause, to notice, and to honour the stories already living in the ordinary things around us. I call it ✨ Curatology✨ .

Together with John Airaksinen and John & Julius Salong, I am now exploring how this work can be made physical, how it can be walked through, touched, and experienced in his beautiful space. We are calling leaders who understand that objects, stories, and spaces shape how people belong.What do the objects you carry say about what you value?

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