I really enjoyed this reading, a lot more than any of the Practices of Looking chapter because I feel it was telling a story rather than listing out information. The chapter mainly talks about collecting, the different ways of to do that and what it entails. Everyone collects whether they realize it or not and this was the fact that stuck out most to me.” Before the trash is carried outside, it is collected and perhaps even sorted. The trash itself is made up of whatever is defined and treated as trash.” This quote is an example of how we even subconsciously collect and sort things as we go about our everyday lives. Collecting is also very animalistic; birds and squirrels survive off of the process of collecting, so we should understand that it is a very natural process. “Prior to all conscious reflection, the human view organizes its field of perception and collects what is scattered into groups or connected formulas. Collecting can be loosely compared to the ongoing movement of our normal waking consciousness, Collecting is the imaginative process of association turned material.” This quote accurately describes how the act of collecting occurs.
The collection that really caught my eye was the online Andy Warhol collection on the MOMA website. I have always been a big fan of Andy Warhol’s work and this collection has a wide variety of it. It features his paintings, films and even has vintage reviews on his work.
My favorite of Andy Warhol has always been his soup cans because I feel they are very simple but very creative at the same time. This collection features early soup cans drawings and then the pieces that incorporate the can.
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