When Odell first arrived at the dump

When Odell first arrived at the dump Welcome to a Laptop AC Adapter specialist of the Hp Compaq Ac Adapter
That is the exact opposite of the way that I think about objects. Mine is “hold it up in front of your face and realize that you’ve never looked at it before and realize that it was injection molded and came through this port in China and it is actually a mystical object.” I don’t care if it gives me joy. It’s a mystical object. It is what it is.
Part of the irony of the phrase “suspended objects” is that it’s supposed to mean that I suspended them from their trajectory. But in reality all objects are currently suspended wherever they are.
Another phrase I use is “imminent trash.” People who have things in their garages for 10 years are not interested in owning that object — but also not interested in going through the effort of getting rid of it. That object is psychologically trash already with adapter like HP Pavilion zd8400 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion zv6000 AC Adapter, Compaq Presario 2500 AC Adapter, HP Compaq nx9000 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion N5270 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion N5400 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion ZE1200 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion ZE4000 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion ZE4500 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion ZE5000 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion ZE5500 AC Adapter, HP Compaq NX9420 AC Adapter. Loading it into a truck and taking it to the dump is just moving it. So I am really interested in these orphan objects that are in transition. Stuck in this garage purgatory.
I don’t need to see things through a lens of usefulness or efficiency or happiness. All objects are almost paralyzingly interesting now. It can be very distracting. Everything recedes infinitely outward. But it is a more interesting way of being in the world.
I Just applied for a residency on a container ship. If I get it, I wanted to bring some of my objects with me to Shenzhen, the port they came out of.
I’m doing a second phase of the project this summer as an artist in residence at the Palo Alto Art Center. In that one, I’m asking people to bring me objects. It’s a trade — you tell me the story of your object as it played out in your life, and in return I will give you the story of the object when it was manufactured up until the point where you acquired it.
And only after that exchange has occurred will I get rid of the object. So it’s ongoing.