Trash And Sentimentality

I was going to make a set of drawings of hoarded / not discarded useless objects, and they were going to be framed and "serious" and sentimental and nostalgic. This would have aimed to comment on the contrast between the practical use and monetary value of the objects (very little) and the amount of value that hoarding these objects and allowing them to use up limited space seems to place on them.

However, someone in the same room as me was watching short films by Pixar (complete with director's commentary) and my brain has been permanently distorted. In a world where dogs speak and you can fish for stars, surely the reason people hoard is not just that objects tell stories of the past and/or potentially still have a use; it's that all objects have PERSONALITIES AND SOULS (and therefore faces) (and so I have approached this task instead by personifying the useless objects).