When i was a child, I was very restless and never wanted to sleep. To have a little rest my parents would tie me to the bed, but I was able to escape running around with a mattress and half the bed tied to me. I would also run away in shopping malls, so they kept me on a leash until I was 6. This used to be a trend back in the seventies they told me. As an adult my life goal is all about preserving my stuff, bringing it from a to b and back again and dropping some of the things in c in between. if I look at the objects maintaining my life as a condensation of material energy, I often wonder how long I could live free and happy from the gain I get out of that pure energy. I wish I was a person like my grandfather who only owns what he needs and he uses it. Nothing ever gets lost. Everything is always in the place where it should be and has been for the last 50 years. He never wastes anything. I don’t actually own so much stuff, but often I dream of burning everything I have. – by MELANIE BONAJO for i heart photograph