A project about endurance and fragility, an oxymoron the artist's hands set about reconciling. The book comes out of research into the accumulation of things and of pictures, and is made of photographs of waste, of objects consumed and thrown away. In a world producing everything to excess, immaterial things included, photographs become an extension of the same problem. Bolzoni carefully appropriates found images and reuses some of his own earlier ones, so the critique is turned on himself as well: he does not exempt himself from the world he is coldly documenting. The organised inventory of excess comes with an essay by Slavoj Žižek, The Varieties of Surplus.