chapter 21
So What’s Left?
What’s in a Name? ★ Latent Collections ★ The Irrepressible Call of the Object ★ Routes to the Prize ★ Where Does it All End Up?
Automobile air freshener, 2004. Passion fruit scent La Virgen de Guadalupe in I Love Jesus packaging, 7 1/2" high. USA
So What’s Left? contemplates imaginative reach, its relationship to the satisfactions of collecting, latent collections and the astonishing and collectible (often free) cultural artifacts that are being turned out right now (ex: name misspellings, history of flight objects, serial postcards, movie ticket stubs, wait your turn tickets, diner placemats, 24/7 diner menus, pump & motor ashtrays, objects made of the wrong materials, corks, auto air fresheners, portrait business cards).
