WIRE HANGERS
Wire hangers live only as long as it takes to go from the cleaners to your house. There, they are replaced by nice, thick, plastic or wooden hangers. That’s when wire hangers realize that they’re not real hangers, just their skeletons.
If only they could see the lovely circus sculptures Calder was able to make with wires just like them, or imagine a readymade created by Duchamp with nothing but hangers.
Unfortunately, hangers don’t live long enough to travel and visit museums and galleries. So what they do after you no longer need them is head to a landfill and join other hangers where they tangle lovingly as only hangers do, and wait for the rain and the rust, and rot.
I keep all hangers. Sometimes I re-use a wire hanger to get hair out of the sink's drain. The plastic ones I break from stepping on them when I'm organizing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment. I can only imagine how much your wire hangers must suffer by being used to unblock drains. Not to mention the broken plastic ones.
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