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Are we unknowable, mysterious beings – or just boringly transparent?

Do our reading habits or the possessions we treasure reveal our inner selves? Well, maybe, but there has to be more to us than that

We all have an idea of ourselves, an inner life so to speak, that may or may not chime with our outer selves

If you are what you eat, and the clothes maketh the man, can our belongings also tell us who we are? What does our stuff really say about us?

I was prompted to ask myself this question recently upon reading about a Belgian photographer, Barbara Iweins, who, after moving house for the 11th time in her life following a divorce, decided to individually photograph every single item she owned, right down to tiny pieces of ...