Jane Hammerslough, author of Dematerializing: Taming the Power of Possessions, points out that ‘EBay is kind of the great resource for those tortured by possessions, because you can see what this fabulous and rare thing is worth in a completely objective way, and separate it from, Oh, my God, I am selling my father.' (4) Jane Hammerslough, Dematerializing: Taming the Power of Possessions, Cambridge MA 2001. Once you’re defining it as something you can’t get rid of, you’re not in control of your life or your home.' (3) Joyce Wadler, ‘The Tyranny of the Heirloom’, The New York Times June 26, 2008. It’s an unhealthy setup, in which people become slaves to inanimate objects. Lubetkin, Ph.d and Clinical Director and Founder of the Institute for Behavior Therapy in New York, observed ‘a number of patients living with inherited furniture they hate.
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But when I typed ‘family clutter’ I found thousands of desperate people who didn’t know how to deal with all the stuff they inherited. Of course the first thing I did was to type ‘family inheritance’ in Google – I was surprised to find 0 relevant hits. Background: inheritance as case study Max Ernst, The Master’s Bedroom is worth spending a night in it, 1920 Being aware of the problems that can arise due to objects from the past inherited in the present, the aim of this research is to determine not what to do with the inheritance of the past, but to establish what type of inheritance can be designed today that will not perpetuate the same problems in the future. Being a designer, I feel the necessity to establish what my role is as an active maker of objects. My interest in this subject is not only that of the passive viewer (which I also am) wondering why I am lured by things. It works as a magnifying glass, clearly revealing a process occurring so continuously that we become completely unaware of it. Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, Londen 2007, pp. (2) Hal Foster, Rosalind Kraus, Yve-Alain Bois et.al., Art since 1900. Just as psychoanalysis presumes that dysfunction can help us understand function, inheritance is interesting because it lays bare the traditional mechanisms by which we assign meaning to objects in daily life. In order to do so, it examines theoretical models of meaning creation and how they apply in daily life. This investigation attempts to understand the process by which, during inheritance, we succumb to the fallacy of believing that objects are meaningful. As attached as we can be to things, as meaningful as they may seem to us, they are in fact just that – things. How could he not be there when those things were so much part of him? Wasn’t he in fact still there, in his things? If I just concentrated hard enough he would come out and I’d be able to see him.' (1) Anonymous testimonial, Rio de Janeiro 2009.
‘One afternoon I put my feet up on the table I inherited from my father, stared at his cupboard, and concentrated, sure he would materialize next to me.
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