SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS

 
I was recently invited to participate in the "Significant Objects" art project, joining the likes of Christopher Sorrentino, Ed Park, Maud Newton, Colson Whitehead and Nicholson Baker. Short version is they send a bunch of writers a random photo (I got the yo-yo pictured above) and we write a very short fiction concerning said object. Object and its "story" are put on Ebay, and the entire project is documented for posterity. The curators are interested in how narrative assigns value to...