Coming from a family obsessed with collecting, saving, keeping, hoarding and recycling everything, has left me fascinated with collections and collecting. Living in such a material world, it is interesting to think about the value we attach to certain objects - the commodity fetishism and socially constructed values and prices attached to objects that are, in actuality, much higher than the production value of these objects. Instead of simply buying the object needed or desired, you are throwing down extra money to buy the "lifestyle" or "brand" associated with this object, and the ideologies that are embedded. This hierarchy of value is interesting to look at in comparison to our own personal value, often considered to be priceless, that we attach to certain objects. On the other hand, in an era where material objects are so easily disposed of, it is interesting to examine what is saved and collected.
This blog is an attempt to explore and study collections, collectors, savers, hoarders and pack-rats, to discuss and debate what constitutes as a collection, to examine and research the reasons behind value, and why we collect and how we display collections as objects of beauty, art, obsession, compulsion and neurosis.
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