What is a life made of? The interactions between people or the transactions between them? Over the past weeks since beginning to collect purchase receipts I have been shocked by the number I have accumulated, both from everyday necessities and specialized purchases, like new socks. These items are just that, temporary transactions revolving around the acquiring of things, not creating relationships, memories, or even a life. Its seems as if a huge part of this accumulation makes up a life but adds nothing to it.
Even the process of building the globe represented to me how the thrill of a special purchase is soon overshadowed by another and another until the original excitement of that purchase is long forgotten.
The globe itself is comprised of approximately 300 receipts for everything from Metrocards, groceries, superhero underpants, videogames, pet food, dinners out at restaurants, birthday gifts, and clothing.
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