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These objects do not reside physically in one location and they are distributed according to a multiplicity of variables, though fundamentally, I require they maintain portability. Of course, in actuality they do, and are, across, beyond, and through portable, and so transportable, but I have difficulty to reconcile this and so their classification method is a mnemonic. | These objects do not reside physically in one location and they are distributed according to a multiplicity of variables, though fundamentally, I require they maintain portability. Of course, in actuality they do, and are, across, beyond, and through portable, and so transportable, but I have difficulty to reconcile this and so their classification method is a mnemonic. | ||
These objects are not yet thought to incorporate their odysseys; to tell of their various ingredients shaped and harvested over time, the transformations and trajectories they have and will undergo. Until now they do not come into my possession with any bona fide memoir to tell. The status of the autonomous object and it's coming into form recalls standardization and the mechanized means of 20th century production. These objects constitute a materials economy that runs a linear system on finite resources, where the cost of production is externalized for the most basic and luxury good. Limited and problematic, as symbols of value, status, history and power, an object's materiality is in itself defined by certain design. Seemingly distant and anonymous, intricate and estranged, these belongings become ours to mythologize. | |||
Though a reductionist projection is dangerously simplistic and bound to summon longing. I have paid more money for some objects than others, invested much energy in their care, washing, protecting, and carrying. Some have been offered by a person I can(not) see or speak, but with whom I commune through the single object. In their present, twisted configurations these objects are mostly intended to exist as single, static versions of themselves, compounds that are imprudent, often volatile, and will after 'a long day' disperse, likely unaccounted for. As garbage, they haunt us in their afterlives (Unverzagt, 2010). | |||
To emphasize instead the multitude of informational compositions that characterize these objects is profound as it implies their ability to endure and transform materiality. It is a willingness to accept objects as material instantiations of an immaterial system (Sterling, 2005). A means to see at once the various potentialities and their relational becoming, these objects embody a whole repository of time and energy, individual and collective biographies; they are empowered political entities, each existing as a multiple in their connectedness. The value of these objects can be measured in their relational proximity, in their spatio-temporal relationships. | |||
Their cataloguing and tagging is not a forced augmentation but an ever changing, dynamic process that highlights their potential for becoming many things at once. These compositions may go beyond the range or limits of one boundary and permute from one object to another. To date, the best I can do is relinquish their identification as 'unique' and opt instead for a nomadic, ever changing informational system of dynamic identifiers. | |||
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