STUFF

Our STUFF plays a major role in our lives. During our lives we surround ourselves with an amount of stuff that continues to grow over the years and that grows in kind with our development as a person. We find some items so special that we create an emotional bond with them. We can identify with them, or they are an expression of how we would like to be.

When these objects break or get lost, we can experience genuine grief. The relationship we have established with it can be so strong that it seems as if with the loss of the object we also lost a part of ourselves. Our relationships with our objects are less complicated and seeing yourself reflected in your environment and stuff can give a feeling of safety and comfort.

HELEN too, identifies herself so strongly with the items in her interior, that she has curated strictly, that part of herself was taken away with the theft of her stuff. She tries to fill the void that remains, but without success. Confronted with her loss of identity, she sees only one more way to really become one with what she loves.

Our economy runs on consumption and consuming can be an addiction, almost like an insatiable hunger. You could call materialism a modern disease, like a psychological counterpart of obesity.