Worn Stories

it gives me a great pleasure to keep my clo thes my dresses, my stockings, I have never thrown away a pair of shoes of mine in 20 years. I cannot separate myself from my clothes nor Alain’s – The pretext is that they are still good – it is my past and as rotten as it was I would like to take it and hold it tight in my arms
—LOUISE BOURGEOIS, 1968