This resonated with me. My wife and I are inveterate trinket-gatherers and displayers! I'm always interested in how seemingly insignificant objects tell us something about our own and others' lives.
That’s so lovely and indeed - I read a book recently The Meaning of Things by Eugene Halton. He really digs into the objects we collect and what it says / means to our lives. I like his philosophy that the antidote to a materialistic world is that we should actually be MORE materialistic in that we should take time to build relationships and attach meaning to our things. Rather than gathering lots of things that don’t have meanings…. I quite like that.
I'll have to check that book out. I also recommend The Comfort of Things by Daniel Miller, How Are Things? by Roger-Pol Droit and Steven Connor's Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things. The Object Lessons series of books published by Bloomsbury is also worth checking out. It's a fascinating topic!
This resonated with me. My wife and I are inveterate trinket-gatherers and displayers! I'm always interested in how seemingly insignificant objects tell us something about our own and others' lives.
That’s so lovely and indeed - I read a book recently The Meaning of Things by Eugene Halton. He really digs into the objects we collect and what it says / means to our lives. I like his philosophy that the antidote to a materialistic world is that we should actually be MORE materialistic in that we should take time to build relationships and attach meaning to our things. Rather than gathering lots of things that don’t have meanings…. I quite like that.
I'll have to check that book out. I also recommend The Comfort of Things by Daniel Miller, How Are Things? by Roger-Pol Droit and Steven Connor's Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things. The Object Lessons series of books published by Bloomsbury is also worth checking out. It's a fascinating topic!