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1. I have archived much of my life through collected objects.
2. I have moved a smaller studio, making it necessary that I get rid of a lot of these objects.
3. I have done so by using them as the raw material for one enormous collage, created inside a 30-yard dumpster.
4. Oh, also, I have photographed around 500 of these objects and will display them here, accompanied by a brief history of each item.
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CUT THIS OUT

3.6 in diameter x .4 cm
This is from the spout of a can of Danish oil. I kept it because it seemed like handy advice to have in tangible form.

BANJO RESONATOR REST

17.8 x 6.5 x 5 cm
One day in 1999 or 2000, I went to Flugmacher's apartment. There was a banjo sitting in the corner and I said 'nice banjo'. Flug said 'I found it in a dumpster, you want it?'. 
The crappy banjo that Flugmacher gave me has been replaced, its parts parceled into several art projects. This arm rest is almost all that remains of the instrument that was the impetus to my lifelong dedication to making music: a form of expression I totally suck at, but find impossible to abandon.

CHALK BOARD HINGE

7 x 9.4 x 8.3 cm
In 1997 I directed a promotional commercial where I animated on a chalkboard. At the end of the shoot, I got to keep the chalkboard. It is amazing how much dust using a chalkboard generates inside a small apartment. When I moved to Brooklyn in 2002, the slate was relegated to our  roof deck where we thought it would host civilized games of pictionary accompanied by moderately priced wine. Instead it fell victim to the elements rather quickly. Shortly thereafter I removed the hinges. To use. For something.