The Possession Project is an eclectic audio documentary series exploring the curious and uniquely human impulse to acquire and accumulate stuff. Join journalist Kelly Crowe as she investigates the causes and consequences of our possession obsession. Each episode has 1) an audio documentary which is available on all of the podcast platforms and 2) an original essay with supporting photos, videos and links available at ThePossessionProject.ca
Amid our chaotic jumble of possessions, there is usually a shoebox in the attic, perhaps many boxes, filled with cards and letters, handwritten fragments of a life. These notes, diaries and journals …
This episode of The Possession Project is a story about the revealing traces of identity and personality that we leave on our former possessions, told through the history of a typewriter.
There’s som…
There’s something profoundly unsettling about watching a piano being pushed off the back of a truck. The awful shuddering noise as it flies though the air and lands on the garbage pile. And th…