In Paper Trail, I exhibited a collection of toilet paper as relics in a glass museum case. I was curious about the process of imbuing an object with memory - how an everyday object becomes symbolic or takes on value beyond its intended purpose. On the wall behind the museum case is a map of Berlin with pins marking the sites where the toilet paper was collected. Tacks bearing numbers that correspond to the numbers labeling the toilet paper relics dangle from strings attached to the pins in the map. Paper Trail suggests that objects we choose to imbue with value are random. Similar to Mark Dion’s Thames Dig, in which he excavated discarded and lost items from the River Thames, then placed them in cases in a museum, Paper Trail humorously suggests that if random pieces of debris can be elevated to art, toilet paper can play a similar role.