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You have to set rules.

Does a Lego set count as one item or 752 items + box, instructions + bags?

Or 1 keychain vs keyring + tchotchke + keys?

How many items is a bicycle?




Protocol

→ Each piece was photographed as a whole before being closed forever (any object later integrated into the room would not be part of the Katalog otherwise I might continue until my death). I then moved on to another room, and so on.

→ In order to avoid duplicates, Post-its were affixed to drawers or cupboards whose contents had been entirely photographed.

I have excluded:

→ as a tenant, the fixed things in the house that I have not chosen, such as the bathtub, the sink, etc.;

→ food, which is fleeting;

→ objects that do not have their own volume, such as papers, letters, etc.

I photograph together:

→ any object wrapped or attached to another;

→ objects that are more than 50 identical copies in all respects (sequins, straws, etc.);

→ objects forming part of a whole still present in their original container (board games, box of cotton swabs, etc.);

→ if, on the other hand, the object is no longer in its original box, it is considered unique and photographed separately (Lego brick, marble, etc.).

https://www.katalog-barbaraiweins.com/english.html


I'm sure there is an OOP joke here but it's probably private.



and while we're dissecting artistic interpretation, is a single atom comprising any given item itself an item?


Does the artist now have 25590 items?




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