Abstract
In our modern life we are surrounded by
 thousands of objects. In between them they
 form innumerable and complex patterns
 by which one person distinguishes himself
 or herself from an other with respect to
 objects, food, clothes, the home, cars. This
 is how separate ethnies, territories or clubs
 are formed, with more or less identical
 collections of objects. It seems as if we wish
 to be in a region (“them and us”) and at the
 same time be independent beings within the
 region (“you and me”). We all are something
 owing to our objects. Or is it the other way
 around? Are our objects something owing
 to the other objects they are combined
 with? We might have chosen them, but,
 nevertheless, they seem to chose each other!
 And might it not be that the objects can
 change their connotation, simply by being
 moved into another region or territory ? It is
 particular modern things which distinguish
 the region of modern life from the region of
 traditional, folk life. There are objects which
 distinguish one modern space from another.
 I am speaking about faint nuances, but they
 are obvious to the user and the viewer. Social
 individualism is far more widespread than
 authentic originality individualism. Among
 the younger members of the population,
 an ironic sense of originality is emerging,
 where very popular, folk things suddenly
 are considered original by being combined
 in new and very unfolklike fashions. Is this
 to be understood as a protest against the
 canons of elitist judgements? Or is it simply
 to be understood as a desire to rediscover the
 traditional folk ways?
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