Marcel Winatschek

On My Desk

Took a photo of my desk the other day—one of those chain things where everyone documents their workspace. Mine’s unusually tidy in the shot, which is funny because that’s not how it normally is.

The magazines stack up: Computer Arts, PAGE, blonde. All design stuff, the kind you actually flip through. Behind them, my phone, a Beck’s Green Lemon, Wrigley’s Extra Professional gum. The desk lamp has an O.C. postcard clipped to it. Framed photo of Ana and me next to it. iPod nano in black. These paper figures I made years back—Thunder Eater and Ankorman—sitting where they belong. Xerox monitor. Mac mini. White keyboard, white mouse.

Looking at it, I can date the whole setup to a specific year. The gum, the magazines, the iPod, the mini—it all points to the mid-2000s. It’s accidentally a time capsule.