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from "What Did you Buy Today?," by Kate Bingaman-Burt, Obsessive Consumption 13 March 2009 :: thanks Daniel A. Siedell
An intriguing and evocative more-or-less daily series by Portland artist (and art professor) Kate Bingaman-Burt about consumption. I like not only the way she cultivates awareness of what we buy, and why, but also the absence of the agitprop-style reflexive condemnation of consumerism that is the easy way out for so many residents of elite coastal cities. :) She documents purchases useful, delightful, and frivolous with wit and insight and the appropriate level of ambivalence about the purchasing life.
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