Dump, Cosmos

Salient Feature #4: Indistinction of garbage and art.

"The whole world, everything which surrounds me here, is to me a boundless dump with no ends or borders, an inexhaustible, diverse sea of garbage. In this refuse of an enormous city one can feel the powerful breathing of its entire past. This whole dump is full of twinkling stars, reflections and fragments of culture[.] . . . [A]ll forms of packaging which were ever needed by man have not lost their shape, they did not become something dead when they were discarded. They cry out about a past life, they preserve it. . . . The feeling of vast, cosmic existence encompasses a person at these dumps; this is by no means a feeling of neglect, or the perishing of life, but just the opposite--a feeling of its return, a full circle, because as long as memory exists that's how long everything connected to life will live."
--Ilya Kabakov, "The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away"

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