STUDIO VISIT: REED ANDERSON

“Catalog culture is something I grew up with. My mother was famous for handing us catalogs and saying, “Christmas is coming up, you should figure out what you want Santa to bring you.” And you know, you’d circle the things you wanted, and sometimes you’d put one heart, or two hearts if that was the thing you really wanted. It didn’t mean you were getting it, cause you’d pore over the catalog, and the whole thing would be dog-eared and drawn in to illustrate varying degrees of desire. You’d hand it to your mother with these hopeful puppy dog eyes. So recently this desire for things, for objects has become really interesting to me. It can make you very miserable, and in a way, working on this project has been very therapeutic, like an exorcism of desires and objects. Of course it’s a bottomless pit.”