Chandelier collection at ABC Carpets in NYCCollection Connection
Lately I have run into several people who are avid collectors. One person has an amazing collection of Japanese furniture and décor and yet another has a magnificent array of clocks. I admire personal collections because they give me a birds-eye-view of a fairly good sampling of objects in a genre in which I am usually not too familiar. But if I consider it from another angle, what does a ‘collection’ mean to the collector? What does it represent?
I notice in some cases the collection is a story line of where someone has traveled and where, in some part, their consciousness was during their travels. Objects hold information about culture and have a temporal language that is just as good as a diary entry. Other collectors who choose to focus on one type of object, clocks, for example, may indeed be fulfilling a neurological ‘sweet tooth’ of sorts to experience the shape, sound, texture—overall experience of an object repeatedly in various forms. This type of collecting has a sensation of intensity associated with it that would seem to reflect some aspect of the person doing the collecting.
