Waste Not
“Waste Not is an installation created by chinese artist Song Dong in New York Museum of Modern Art. One will find there around 15 000 things (clothes, shoes, plastic botles and so on) of Songs Dong’s mother who has never thrown away a single thing during all her entire life” (extract from Esquire in my free translation from Russian - Esquire, Jan 2010, pp.28-29).
Article caught my attention cause after I had read the headline I remembered depthless wardrobes of my beloved grandma … For already 10 years my sister and I have been trying to empty those. We were taking granny’s clothes, bags and shoes cause such wardrobes are simply a treasury for us who hate mass-fashion. However, wardrobes are still difficult to close.
It is either a new or just forgotten concept that there is always another way to utilize and there is always a way not to waste.
