face it, our day to day lives involve consumption, whether we love, hate it or more likely are ambivalent about it.

and everything we purchase has a story - we buy art supplies when feeling inspired, clothes while shopping with friends, sometimes we buy as a lift when we are feeling blue.

as a sort of artistic penance for over-doing it, kate bingaman-burt began drawing her monthly credit card statements, painstakingly recreating every last line and decimal point. that led kate start to drawing one of her purchases from each day. $1.50 for a cup of coffee, $5.95 for a magazine, $17.99 for headphones, $1.79 for cough drops, $36.00 for a haircut.

in this amazing chronicle, kate holds up a mirror to her own obsession with shopping and acquisition. a selection of three years of delightful drawings of sundry items. accompanied by insightful annotations, the drawings are a glimpse into the kate's life - in addition to the banal, she also buys wedding bands, a dog, a moving truck, handmade items from friends and lots of pens and drawing paper to support her drawing habit.

both a celebration of the beauty of the everyday and a microcosm of consumer culture - amazing!

208 pages in paperback. 6"w x 8"h