“Going to the grocery store is a pretty mundane activity. But the lists we take to the store can be fascinating specimens of anthropology. At least that’s the view of Los Angeles-based performance artist Hillary Carlip. Carlip has dedicated her life to searching for and interpreting discarded lists, then turning them into characters. Carlip found her first discarded grocery list in front of the Red Apple Market in New York when she was 15 years old. ‘On the list were items like Twizzlers, peanut brittle and gum,’ she says, ‘and it was on the back of a dental appointment reminder card! And I just thought, OK, there’s really something to this.’” MORE ➲