Sketchy purchases

December 16, 2009Jon Brooks Comments Off
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You know what might get me to cut down on my purchases and stay within a budget? Making a rule that I actually had to draw what I bought.

Artist Kate Bingaman-Burt has been doing just that since 2002. She posts and archives illustrations of everything she buys on Obsessive Consumption. One commenter on the blog Love. Obsess. Inspire. wrote:

I wonder, does she buy less as the recession looms larger (and longer)? Do her shopping habits correlate to the quality and depth of her drawings? Are these factors, in turn, influenced by the anxiety produced by living in a society divorced from the grummy concerns existing in this post-post-western-globalized-modern life?

Hmm. Hard to say. All I know is everything’s here — dresses, cans of black beans, facial tissues, silver pumps (shoe variety), combs, Listerine, coffee-to-go, Mac computers, staplers — everything and anything that a modern human being might purchase.

Since she also sells her work, this is the perfect GDP-enhancing system. Buy something then sell a drawing of it, you’re twice contributing to the net flow of goods and services.

Check this stuff out on Flickr as well…

Posted on December 16, 2009 at 9:51 am
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