I’m not suggesting that they should have sold it all and lived in an empty warehouse with sprinklers. Apologies, if that wasn’t clear. Not victim blaming. I love the space they created. I wish there were more spaces like that. I’d love it if more people created spaces like they did.
I was merely wondering how such a large quantity of expensive pieces ended up there since you and everyone else who describes them, describes them as living hand to mouth as you say. Maybe they were the landlord’s. maybe the collective was founded by someone getting out of the import business. maybe they sold imports to fund their art. i don’t know. but i am curious…because i can say for certain the contents of their place was worth a lot more then you might guess. whatever the case, i’d love to know the story.
all i know is most artist collectives don’t have items like those, and that is a shame because what they had created was amazing.
I used to have a space in an artist collective in an old jam factory btw. Everyone chipped in and made it cool, but nothing like what they had done with all the imported stuff.
