We live in a consumer economy. Anything you can dream of you can have, and it's just a handful of cash away. But what do we do with all the things we buy? Some of it we need, and we hold on to those necessities. Other things are just clutter and end up being tucked away, thrown out, or pushed aside.
Chinese artist Song Dong has put on display every item his mother owned in one single room, including the house itself.
What sized room would it take to hold everything you owned?
Chinese artist Song Dong has put on display every item his mother owned in one single room, including the house itself.
What sized room would it take to hold everything you owned?
When Mr. Song’s father died, in 2002, his mother was inconsolable. She continued to live in the jammed Beijing house, throwing nothing away and obsessively bringing more stuff into it, as if continuing to feather a nest for a now-absent family.
Finally, in 2005, Mr. Song proposed that they turn the accumulated junk into an art project. In this way, he argued, nothing would be discarded and lost; everything would be meaningfully recycled and preserved.
From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by coconutnut.
It's kind of cramped in here honestly.