Bless, Desiree Heiss
"I found this item on a very bad flea market in Castellammare di Stabia, a city close to Naples. Everything there was so cheap and disgusting but this item was an exception. When I saw it, I instantly had an association with the book title: "The possibility of an island". It was indeed my island on that depressing day (the book is not very positive, but the title is)."

Paul Loebach
"Hans -give to me by a very special friend, Hans is a Steiff Tiger made in Germany between 1965-67. I like collecting German objects - I think they remind me that as an American I have no authentic cultural history, which must be very liberating. Another friend once described Hans as 'in the Tiger Balm pose!"

Lee Broom
"These Binoculars hold a fond memory for me. It was my 14th birthday and my father took me to the Cotswolds out in the country for the day. My parents were separated and this was a birthday day out. When we passed this antique store I saw these in the window and just fell in love with their elegance and also their clever functionality. My father bought them for me for my birthday gift. It was a very untypical gift for a boy of 14 for which my father never batted an eyelid. The Binoculars sit on a shelf next to my desk in my studio and as well as feeling like my father is looking over me they very much signify his acceptance of who I was and who I am now."

Nacho Carbonell
"The crab and box belong together. I found the crab in the sea on top of a rock in Tenerife. It looked so real and full of life, I thought when I approached it, that it could runaway. Then I realized it was dead and empty inside. I took it with me and protected this delicate empty shell in the box where I usually have my pens. I kept it safe during my entire journey until I showed it in an exhibition and someone touched it and broke it."

Xavier Lust
"I have always been fascinated by the structures built by nature. Nothing is wasted, nothing is decoration. Beauty comes spontaneously through a process of determination: what is ugly and useless doesn't survive. I wish I could achieve such a purity and lightness in my work, being able to model matter as nature only can do."