Obsessive Consumption
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
I haven’t always been in love with Kate Bingaman, but man, oh man am I in love with her now.. When I saw the Ultra show at the Jen Bekman Gallery a few months ago, I spent a few minutes soaking up Bingaman’s installation there, a then/now comparison of products at the time of their purchase and where they ended up a few months later. It was interesting but then I moved on. It wasn’t exactly a heavily intellectual piece.
Man. So I don’t even know where to begin with this. I just found her flickr stream and man, that little installation at Jen Bekman isn’t even the tip of the iceberg. That was like… I mean, that’s just a drop in the bucket of the seemingly bottomless reservoir of creativity that is Kate Bingaman. She is drawing her daily purchases now, each drawing is quirky, funny, interesting. They’re incredible. Really amazing. You can spend hours on her flickr. But, there’s more! Much much, more!
The flickr stream led me to her website, obsessiveconsumption.com, which is like her hub. It of course, has her work arhchived and organized for perusal. It also features a blog. And also, years of bank statements redrawn by her distinctive hand, daily drawings, so much stuff.
Her photography on consumption-related themes is engaging as well, and, of course, she has fully stocked store selling her zine (monthly!), buttons, hankies, drawings, I mean everything you could imagine. Really, all I can think to say is that the whole thing is really fucking rad.