Have you ever come
across something that you
just didn’t want to part
with? Like, I need this with
me, this is mine.
I find things I don’t want to
part with all the time. It’s really tough to be a user and
a dealer. I got into this because I love this stuff, the
weirder the better, and all the
time I keep shit. I’ll find stuff
and I’m like “I can’t sell this,
I’ll never find another one”.
What I end up doing though,
as the collection grows and
I have no place for all of it,
I’ll trade up. Something I
have, maybe I’ve had for a while, I’ve lived with it in the house, I’ve enjoyed
it, I’ll let it go, I’ll put shit back out in the world, let someone else enjoy it.
So whenever I keep stuff I really try to trade up. When something comes
into the collection usually something goes out as well, something lesser. Of
course it builds your collection, although there’s stuff I regret selling, but you
can’t keep it all.
I know right! What are your plans for the future?
I would love to open up a shop out in the west. For years I’ve been thinking Los Angeles. They just don’t have this stuff out there, at least not in any
quantity. Maybe a pop-up shop, maybe just go out there and just do it, I
think that’s what I’d really like to do. Maybe that and another show. Always
another show!
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