On Collecting: Observations from a textile collector’s daughter

Writer, brenda Lin, grew up with a grandfather who collected art and a mother who collects children’s textiles. She never understood the need to amass things until her mother invited her to translate the books she wrote about her collection from Chinese to English. Through the work of translation and later, archiving, Lin began to understand the text in textiles, which eventually formed the central metaphor for her forthcoming book, Unraveling Threads: Essays on Inheritance.

At this talk, Lin will share a visual essay that asks – What is the impulse that drives collectors to build their collections? What passions, questions, and tensions govern a collector’s mind? And how might a collection be passed on?

The book is available for preorder (at a 40% discount with the promo code THREADS)

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