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Corinne Botz is a Brooklyn based artist. “The Secret Life of Objects,” a collaboration with the Institute for Challenging Disorganization, considers how objects are connected with our sense of self, and the process of letting go of possessions. If you would like to give your object a new life please make a contribution to this project and you will receive a photograph in return.

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August 18, 2011

Composite of clothes donated to The Secret Life of Objects: wedding dress, pink suit worn to daughter’s wedding, blue sweater given from mother to daughter, favorite plaid shirt and dress sewn to wear to the 125th Anniversary of a hometown in 1975

From Louise Bourgeois, The Fabric Works:

Very very difficult to get rid of all the clothes I do not use this year

What do they represent: failures, rejects, abandoned

Left because of Guilt. Guilt ties me to them (increasingly, unlived, unwanted, ineffectual)

To remember the failures is a right to complain

Pretext not to move ahead.

Laziness, to like it.

9:13pm | URL: http://secretlifeofobjects.tumblr.com/post/9103269742

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