Dea T.

Collecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills that demand time, patience, and a willingness to look beyond the surface.

To collect well is to resist algorithmic influence. A true collection reflects deeply personal values and a genuine desire to... See more

Like our own imagination, art can wander off, seeking out the edges, the borderlands, the mysteries. Indeed, this autonomy is art’s power and part of its emotional appeal. But this very ability to separate from everyday material life may also make art impotent in trying to shape the world from which it has escaped. At most it can be a nudge or a

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And what returns home to the point of ambivalence is something foreign. By dint of the obsessive relation of repression, the repressed "proliferates in the dark" becoming fantastical, chimerical. This estrangedthing then gets to stand in for the repressed

But I also think we fall in love with people who let us be stupid. Playful. Less performative. It’s anti-branding.