While others choose to collect and archive objects of value, I am inclined to collect everyday ephemera -- the leftovers of our consumer society. I have always found a certain attraction to being that person seen walking out of the thrift store with vast quantities of identical items. These discarded and mundane things generate stares and comments from the cashier and other customers: “Why on earth would you need more than one of those? Never mind one hundred.” Strangely enough this questioning encourages me to collect even more objects, knowing that someday all of these items
might be repurposed through my artistic practice. I have a curious obsession with discovering new patterns and perfect matches for objects that I have already accumulated. German curator and critic, Matthias Winzen, in his essay Collecting -- So Normal, So Paradoxical, describes this best when he says, “collecting is the imaginative process of association turned material."