Collections of Nothing

I respond to the mute, meager, practically valueless object, like a sea-washed spigot, its mouth stoppered by a stone.

What I like is the potency of the impotent thing, the renewed and adorable life I find in the dead and despised object, something in nothing.

collector can do almost anything, so long as it tells a heroic story.

Collecting is a form of sorcery (or prayer).

A "Place Stamp Here" is nothing more than an expression of the need for something valuable.

COLLECTING is a way of linking past, present, and future.

MIDDLE-CLASS LIFE is itself a collection: