I am a practitioner of the can-I-have-its, a collector of things.I am the sort who walks through antique shops touching everything, wondering what place these objects could hold in my life. I flip through the ikea catalog and salivate, just a little. I am, indeed, firmly ensconced in the material culture.As a result, I have a lot of stuff, a LOT of stuff. And as an artist, it's worse, because there is always some potential use somewhere down the road for that quirky rusty, something-or-other. In the last months I have been exploring the place of the gift in our culture, and the relationship between faith and fear and abundance and scarcity.I believe that the structure of artificial scarcity is not only self-perpetuating, but in fact, self-catalyzing. What happens when we believe that there is enough? What happens when we act on that belief? So in the spirit of the gift, I am embarking upon a mission to give away the things that I do not need.It is a practice of faith, and an act of rebellion against dominant capitalist culture. Is it a little crazy? Probably.Is it going to be hard? Absolutely.But here I go.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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And sometimes finding the right home for something is easy:
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