The Human Urge to Collect Little Objects
I keep a collection of things that don’t matter. At least, that’s what I’d have to tell you if you asked me to justify it in terms of outcomes, deliverables, or return on investment. Quotes that lead nowhere. Ideas that connect to nothing actionable. Fragments of beauty too strange to categorize. I save them the way some people save ticket stubs or... See more
“I always say you’re a “things” person or you’re not. When I go to someone’s house I know immediately if they’re a “things” person. It’s not about good design; it’s about seeing and finding intense delight in objects. I love walking through a home and hearing all of the stories about all of the things. Those are the spaces and people I tend to
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We all have our own treasured collections. They can be physical cabinets of curiosities, say, living room bookshelves full of our favorite novels, records, and movies, or they can be more like intangible museums of the heart, our skulls lined with memories of places we’ve been, people we’ve met, experiences we’ve accumulated. We all carry around
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to save, to add to our collection, the action both etches it a little deeper into our hearts and creates a context around the artifact itself, whether text, song, image, or video. The context is not just for ourselves but for other people, the knit-together, shared context of culture at large. That’s what Benjamin described when he wrote, “The
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