This apartment is certainly about less, not more, but it’s by no means unpopulated. I have objects I care about everywhere: on my mantel, tables, cabinets. They are here as they are in every house, in that layer of domestic stock, all the items besides the furniture. No matter how spartan one’s taste, it’s my [...]
A photo, quite identical to the one above, was featured in the Adbusters July/August issue, and as I looked at the worldly possessions of Mohandas Gandhi, a spiritual and political visionary that has inspired generations, I felt, well, guilty. As I am admittedly, a person of dramatic affect, my response was of no great surprise. [...]
My trip to the local landfill was complete confirmation that we should obsess about the things we own. Obsess about why we buy them, how we care for them and how we dispose of them. Acres of beautiful landscape dedicated to mashing our junk into the ground. Yuck. photo credit: phyllisalyse