
Advertisement

Aaron Rose: I got married earlier this year and with that partnership came a major reassessment of priorities. I started looking at all aspects of my life: personal, professional, financial, and spiritual. One day my wife Lucy and I were at my storage space and she noticed this pile of 600 blank VHS tapes in there. She was like, "Why do you keep those things?" I've been storing so many things like that for years and it got me thinking about the whole concept of storage. The way that ten years of my New York life had hidden away in this black box in Glendale for over a decade. I just send a check to pay for it every month. I thought of that space as a metaphor for my mind and decided it was time to do a housecleaning.


I don't know! There was part of me that justified it all by saying to myself, "Oh, this will be worth something one day." On the other hand, most of the things in there will never be worth any more than they are now. It's just stuff. I think maybe I was just trying to hold on to my past, some kind of innocence from my younger days? Who knows why we justify things. All I know is that I suddenly began feeling very benevolent and thought about all the people who would enjoy seeing the stuff that I had in there.
Advertisement
It's hard for me to judge because it's my stuff, but there's about 150 posters and artist prints in there. Some really fantastic ones. As we have been pulling things out there are some images I haven't seen in almost 20 years. Some really amazing fanzines and skateboard decks too. Oh, and I'm selling off my whole collection of British fashion magazines from the 1980's (The Face, i-D, Blitz), that I used to have sent to my parents' house when I was a teenager. There are some really great images in those magazines. It was a very stylish time.

July 7 - 21, 2012
Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax, LAThe opening is Saturday night 7 to 11 PM with a performance by Money Mark, Tommy Guerrero, Ray Barbee, and Fredo Ortiz.@lizzyarmstrong