July 08, 2004
sears roebuck 1932
i use these catalogues a lot for collage source
i love how there are sometimes multiple pages of variations of an item
like shoes or hot water bottles
cataloguing and collecting are of great interest to me
i assign to my visual culture class a semester-long collection
at the end of the term they must catalogue their collection somehow
we plan on including envelopes for collecting in the OA text
Found Magazine is based on a form of collecting
i also think about lewis and clark, adam in genesis, audobon, and crazy people
Age creates Aura doesn't it? Or is it nostalgia in this example?
Crazy people? Darger and his collection of weather observations... Adam's "Beards and Mustaches II" book.
The AURA is less the object collected and more the accumulation of the things or especially the REASON behind it. Like in Seth and kevin's conversation, the process is one thing (randomization and the parameters given a system) vs. the resulting effect and the meaning inherent... this meaning can't very often be predicted.
Things get strange sometimes. Beards and Mustaches.