[0] https://allipossess.com/products/key-ring
[0] https://allipossess.com/products/lock
[0] https://allipossess.com/products/bend-key
[0] https://allipossess.com/products/old-key
[0] https://allipossess.com/products/broken-key
[1] https://hackaday.com/2009/09/22/photographic-key-duplication...
That work at least has the weight of a real gesture. The linked work seems (generously) fairly banal by comparison.
[0] https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/break-down/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_Down_(Landy_artwork)
[2] http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160713-michael-landy-the-...
Oh, you just spilled a drink? Better call a cleaning lady because you don't even own paper towels.
Time to a cook a meal? Nope, can't. Better just eat out instead.
Something is broken? No duct tape, can't go over my 12 item limit, throw out the broken thing and buy a new one.
It all seems so impractical while also oozing of privilege. Must be nice to not have to repair anything or ever cook for yourself.
Actually eating at cafeteria is what least wealthy people, e.g. students, do. Buying food cooked in batch and sharing instruments is cheaper than maintaining your own kitchen and possessions.
How committed to hipsterism is this guy? The "Raw denim jeans" - 4 pairs in varying stages of fadedness, but all of them definitely raw denim. Is it the "Little Prince" theory of how your possessions own you as much as you own them ? Is it a statement that your essence is a gestalt of all the things you own? There's a collection of wrenches and allen keys, as well as pots of fountain pen ink. "Hipster" isn't a precise enough term. How hard are you guys relating to this individual, purely through the stuff he's got? You can see that he lives in an apartment in a cool city, thinks of himself as practical as well as aesthete, probably thinks he's a rugged individualist too, but he's put a lot of effort into fitting in with a very specific demographic.
I don't know. I guess I spent enough time thinking about it that's served it's purpose as art.
To coordinate with different outfits? I mean I don't care, I only have the one unadorned black one, but I can see where someone else might. (I also live in Baltimore, which is not so very far north. Anywhere temperate, a toque can be a handy thing to have - although we more often call them knit caps, down here. Nor am I bald; you don't need a shiny head to need something keeping it warm.)
I don't grasp the intent, either. Perhaps there isn't one. Not long ago I might've written it off as pure wank, but just lately I've been thinking about how to compose my own photographs with artistic value, whatever that means - which makes it a little hard to indulge in the same kind of offhand dismissal I'd rather not have aimed at me.
I don't get art I guess.
There's nothing about the site that really conveys the magnitude of items besides page __ of 12, and you can't even browse by category as if it were an online shopping site, or see original purchase price. He's not utilising the chosen medium of an online shopping cart, so why even use Shopify in this case? It's a minimalistic image gallery with captions.
Sometimes the message is bland or the artist does a bad job of communicating their intentions. And this is one of those situations where I wouldn't fault the viewer as much as the artist for "not getting it."
[1] Worth noting, the installation is sponsored by shopify
I have more capacitors I salvaged from street trash than 'all this person posses'
I see a unfortunate homogeneity of subject matter
There is a wide breadth of cultures and forms of knowledge and expression in the world
I hope to involve as much of it in my life as possible
i also think it unnecessary for someone to have access to junked capacitors
it was mentioned in response to the phrasing utilising 'all' which to me implied a preference for fewer things.. too many things would render the exercise of documenting it 'all' improbable.. and I was trying to express my own opinion of content stead numerosity when living in a comfortable yet clutter free environment
also, i failed to see a bank statement or a pile of cash or stacks of gold bullion, so this all feels editorialised anyway
He does, however, only seem to possess one pair of boxer shorts.
It says '1 of 10', so presumably they're all the same.
