The Man Who Destroyed all His Belongings

Don’t try this at home & not telling your wife

Lucien Lecarme

Oct 10, 2021·5 min read

Landy stands in front of the exhaustive catalogue of his 7,227 of his belongings — in the end, all that remained was his blue boiler suit (Credit: Michael Landy/Parisa Taghizadeh)

“The more stuff people have, the more successful we perceive them to be — but if we all end up with 7,227 things, then we won’t have a planet.” — Michael Landy, Artist