The Black Garbage Bag

Garbage bags are everywhere, containing the sole possessions of hundreds
of people in downtown Portland, homeless men. They
seem like tagalong side-kicks, carried on their heads, cradled in both arms, swinging from their sides, or planted at their feet for long hours at the library to get away from the outside cold.

"Everything that the big city has thrown away, everything it has lost, everything it has scorned, everything it has crushed underfoot. The rags, the refuse-these I will not inventory but allow, in the only way possible, to come into their own: by making use of them."

-walter benjamin