The Metropolitan Museum only showcases ten percent of its owned pieces at any given time. The rest of the art is stored somewhere else waiting to be picked and featured.
“A physical museum is itself a sort of data set — an aggregation of the micro in order to glimpse the macro.”
We all have a surfeit inventory of things we’d like to show: our talents, our Instagram and SnapChat selfies, our love for others. But they can’t all be on display at once.
Like a museum, we have to curate our display while also growing our collection.
The timing, packaging, and place for revealing of our greatest attributes and emotions are stories of their own.
Like art pieces in a gallery, personalities also require curation. It’s impossible to show all your cards at once — pick a few from the archive and make the storytelling as compelling as possible.