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A New Book of Compulsively Organized Things by Austin Radcliffe

A watermelon half sits on white. Its seeds have been picked out and laid below the rind in an even grid, row after row, until the bare space between the fruit and the edge of the frame is full.

Another photograph covers a white ground with padlocks, brass and steel and rusted iron, some hanging on chains, some with keys, all lying flat in rows.

Austin Radcliffe runs Things Organized Neatly, a tumblelog of arranged objects; after six years the best of it has become a book.

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A New Book of Compulsively Organized Things by Austin Radcliffe