Imagine coming across this fake banana for sale on ebay. Would you buy it at all? How much would you be willing to pay for it?
What about this windsurfing statue? Is it something you would eagerly put into your shopping cart?
The Experiment
‘Significant Objects’ is an anthropological experiment devised by Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn. They went out to a thrift store and bought a bunch of useless unwanted objects for very low prices. These objects include bottles, mugs, figurines, napkin rings, crockery, cutlery, basically anything that is of almost no value whatsoever. Read more about the objects they bought on significantobjects.com
They had wanted to see how much these items would fetch on online auction site ebay. But rather than simply putting them up for sale, they enlisted the help of creative writers and artists. Each writer is assigned to an object and tasked to ......