About six years ago my husband and I started watching the series Vikings. In the show’s first few moments I saw something in the character Loki’s lair that changed the direction of my work. Hanging from a tree was a talisman made of driftwood or delicate animal bones. It reminded me of an ancient cairn and appeared to be quite important: it was telling a story or was part of the story being told. This was a defining moment for me, a true epiphany.
I realized at once the purpose of my obsessive collecting, that the multitude of archived objects I’d been squirreling away my entire life were an extension of myself. I choose them because they choose me.
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