Abstract
ABSTRACT This article maps out the relationship between language and objects in life writing by Patti Smith. It examines anchoring effects of books, images, and nameless small things and foregrounds how they allow Smith to accommodate change. Using distinct media and distinct material environment, Smith expounds contexts for self-exploration. The article outlines interactions of media as sources of writing and creativity, it highlights the importance of excess in calling into question essential assumptions about selfhood. It argues that media allow Smith to turn outwards and expand into the world, also to engage the world. Smith's object-based life writing testifies to the achievement of self-realization and good life.
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