Therapy

‘There are more self-storage facilities in America than there are McDonald's restaurants in the world’ As human beings, we have developed a tendency to form strong bonds to our possessions, this phenomenon is commonly known as the ‘Endowment Effect’. This inherent mechanism drives us to hold onto things, by creating justifications for retaining items, or provoking frustration, sadness, or even anxiety when we try to let go of them. Saving every single object is for me the first step of a possible collection: notebooks, cans, stuffed animals, receipts, batteries, or parts of myself like teeth, hair, and nails, just to mention a few. I give my hoarding ‘sense’ by organizing my possessions into catalogs and series. I do that so I can tell myself I’m not a hoarder, I’m a collector. Taking pictures is my way of celebrating detachment and to accept to let possessions go, it is my Therapy. I turn objects into images, images into films so I never remain empty-handed. The project Therapy is my own process of using photography as a remedy to my obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).