..these
arranged groupings of unrequired domestic products, have been
discarded by householders
in expectation of council removal. In what may be a random,
or
in a social aesthetic [a mannered neatness, not a style], these
found arrangements were once integral to the lives of the
occupants: expressions of the everyday * all witnessing a constant
flux of family, of friends, now scruplously abandoned, in the
accelerating pursuit
of the new, or newer..
* ref. pierre restany's essay 'le nouveau realisme', 1960 |