royal trash

"Kitsch is not an active commodity naively infused with the desire of a wish image, but rather a failed commodity that continually speaks of all it has ceased to be. Kitsch is a time capsule with a two way ticket to the land of dreams, the collective or individual realm of myth."


(Tasty snacks.)

"Queen Victoria would not allow any of her innumerable possessions to be thrown away or even altered. If something fell in to total disrepair, she would have it replicated to perfection. When even this was not enough, she had all her belongings photographed from several angles and the photos place in huge albums that the elderly queen browsed at leisure."


Both quotations from The Artificial Kingdom
by Celeste Olaquiaga