ShortHand: Morbid Memorabilia
What is it that possesses us to collect things? To meticulously curate a store of anything from stamps to taxidermied cats? And when that collection focuses on the macabre – like Nazi uniforms, murder weapons, and serial killer memorabilia (AKA “murderabilia”) – what is the collector hoping to gain?
In the words of Ed Gein, “Every man has to have a hobby”. Some bake sourdough bread, some go LARPing, and some collect items owned by the most sadistic and violent psychopaths in human history.
In the words of Ed Gein, “Every man has to have a hobby”. Some bake sourdough bread, some go LARPing, and some collect items owned by the most sadistic and violent psychopaths in human history.
