Our Secret Lives Through Objects
A VISUAL CATALOG OF EVERYTHING ELSE
The fate of an object is often in the hands of its keeper. How much attention it receives affects how it might change or age: a patina from fingerprints, whether it’s spared from dust or cobwebs—the markers of irrelevance. We all know that what happens to our objects is more a reflection of us than of them.
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Even the sun, which pulses life and energy into organic organisms, can sap the vibrance of a fabric’s hue through photodegradation. “Nothing that surrounds us is object,” wrote André Breton, “everything is subject.” The purpose of a glass is to hold. Water, or the last tacky burgundy crescent of wine. For the rest of its existence, what does a glass do but wait? A perfume bottle—also a glass, a vessel—holds, too, but constantly. To be constantly of use, does it connote a more fulfilling life than one spent waiting? Unconsciously we may be bleaching the cushion that rests in the same meridian as a certain potent beam of midday sun. Our spaces are a pastiche of our subconscious lives, ciphers for our internal worlds and preoccupations.