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Object Name: Love Pyramid
Maker: Merchant outside of pyramids in Egypt
Materials: Rose Quartz, Amethyst and Blue Apatite
Dimensions: 2.75 × 3 × 2.75in.
Provenance: The Great Pyramids of Giza
Curators: William Hill, artist and educator
Conversation Leads: Ann Lui, cofounder of Future Firm
The art of collecting is a way of establishing connections to objects on a personal and social level. Many of the objects collected here were based on the natural environment and personal journeys between the object and the collector. Overall, collectors’ insights united around meaningful experiences and reflected a shared sense of place, time, intergenerational connections, and projections of the global future.
The twenty-first century has allowed for an impetus, movement, or shift in collecting. New spaces that challenge institutional forums have surfaced and allow for the interjection of formally nuanced, silenced voices. These voices question traditional ways of collecting.
— William Hill, curator
Below are the collectors' words—unedited—about their objects.