It's not uncommon for a houseful of lovingly accumulated objects to be banished to a garage or basement, which is what happened recently to Antoinette Broussard, an interior designer and writer in San Francisco.
Here Byrne's verses are weighed down by the accumulated objects – large automobiles and beautiful houses – but the chorus bursts with the joys of launching "into the blue again".
Mr. Tirelli considers himself neither a figurative nor an abstract artist and draws on a vast archive of accumulated objects, drawings and photographs to build his images, which are finally elaborated in his imagination, rather than taken directly from nature or actual objects.
In piles of accumulated objects including bicycles, Polaroids, and letters to famous friends, you can take a rare behind-the-scenes look at the late artist Robert Rauschenberg's archive-in-progress.
He wrote, "The youth will confuse sexuality and the art of accumulating objects. . . .
With this urge to accumulate objects, I have joined the ranks of collectors, a group with a rich lineage.
Accumulation of information requires a ratchet-like process that will progressively accumulate accurate objects in a collection of objects that, for that particular purpose, can be considered «junk», but are not «waste».
Both passionately accumulate objects; both are intensely attached to them.
The artist accumulates prosaic objects and then arranges them into groupings that reference her biography.
You shop there: you outsource your aesthetic and taste – getting most things in one big, gross, cheap shop because the idea of accumulating meaningful objects over your lifetime, whether it be while you are travelling, or they are gifted to you from a dead or dying relative, is a weird concept.
