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Frankie Pan is a collector. He loves collecting castaway old books, plastic toys and pretty much anything that he feels would live comfortably in his room. He finds it intriguing how people could love something so much once upon a time, then sell it for a miserable three dollars at a flea market. This could be due to his hoarding mentality, which stemmed from his first pair of Air Jordans in primary school. He loved that shoe so much so that said to himself, “I will never throw you away shoe, because I love you.” That shoe sits with about three dozen others in a dusty corner at home.

 

Back to the books: Frankie is running out of shelf-space because he can’t help adopting new plasticky friends every Sunday at the Camberwell Market, and it’s becoming a bit of a problem because they have started to walk around his room and he keeps hurting his feet by stepping on them. So one day he decided that the books could become homes for his toys, so they had a proper place to live and would have no longer need to wander the carpet. However, his plastic friends would eventually climb out in search of fulfillment, and Frankie’s feet would start to hurt again.

 

Then it hit him, if he put Jacob the Giraffe in a book about dinosaurs, of course Jacob would want to escape - giraffes simply do not feel comfortable in prehistoric environments! The only way to bind both book and plastic was to create a story specifically for them. So Frankie wrote a story for Jacob the Giraffe and illustrated some magical friends in the pages, much to everyone’s joy! Recently, he would even create musical soundtracks for his imaginary friends, so that they would live happily in that particular emotive state of his story.

 

However, the combination of book and toy was still taking up a lot of space, probably more than before because he gets so excited about fusing them together that he would buy more discarded items than ever before. He has since decided to share this wonderful relationship between man, plastic and paper with his friends (real, not imaginary). So have a look, have a read and have a listen to the adventures Frankie has created for his imaginary friends.

 

 

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