The Human Urge to Collect Little Objects
The constructive relationship between consumer and culture goes in both directions. When we find something meaningful enough to save, to collect it, the action both etches it a little deeper into our hearts and it also creates a context around the artifact itself, whether song, image, or video — and context not just for ourselves but for other... See more
Kyle Chayka • Essay: The digital death of collecting - by Kyle Chayka - Kyle Chayka Industries
I must have thought something was really important if it warranted saving. If you put all of my memorabilia and artifacts together, you would get the most accurate story of who I was and what I valued at any one point in my life. And you’d probably need no more than a standard issue dining room table to lay it out.
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Hope is visible in the objects in our homes. Identities and plans rest dormant in a stack of books. The kitchen pantry reassures us of our future nourishment. A toolbox is the confidence that we can fix what will break. Little notes to self. Little notes of self. The secret language of things we use to fold life into time, time into life.
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... See more“Circumstantial evidence suggests that there is still an interest in having personalised ‘cabinets of curiosities’ at home that can be shown to members of the family, as well as guests, serving as stores of memory and topics for discussion.”
Amelia Tait • Tourist trappings: why we all love a tacky souvenir fridge magnet
It is no mystery to me that I love to accumulate. A bookstore feels like a place where I find my kin and my ancestors, wanting to take them home with me. I love fashion and dressing a certain way so I love to thrift and shop at vintage stores and find treasures. I love to read and listen to podcasts to bring in new knowledge. I am a hungry ghost,... See more