·Interview your partner. Learn who they are; What is around them; and Why? Ask what around them is most important — or least important but maybe ubiquitous. Find out the history of these objects: simple or complex, geographic, familial, old or new…
Write 200-300 words about your partner (Who are they?) and their everyday objects (What are they? Why do they have them?). Let the conversation guide you. BUT…. We want to learn something about your partner and their stuff.
David Draves is from a town called Midland in Michigan, and he is in New York now. Because his house in New York is so small, most of the things around him are necessities of life, like clothes. The most important piece of clothing for him was bought last year when he graduated from high school and attended his first Music Show with friends. It is more than just a piece of clothing for him, it means he was taking his first step towards becoming an adult and becoming independent. Among the other things around him that are meaningful to him are the artworks hanging on the walls. He thinks it is very interesting to feel and understand the emotions expressed by a painting which he knows nothing about. He will stand in his own position to think about the position of the painter, with his own feelings to understand the feelings of the painter. Apart from these two objects, there is nothing else that seems important to him. We both agree that what an object means to a person is based on time and memory. Because he had moved into the apartment so short a time, nothing else meant anything to him.
