I now have realised my collections need to have a personal meaning to me for me to really understand them, such as the train tickets and receipts, so I have began collecting frog ornaments…
Ever since I was a child I have always collected frog items, whether it be toys or ornaments. As I felt my collections involving objects I had collected through rules weren’t really working for me, I hoped this closer collection would bring in a more personal link and help me explore display more.
I hoped my work would really begin to take shape and interest me. However I had these frog items which I played around with arranging them and putting them in different places, however something still wasn’t clicking like it should be. I felt I had hit a wall. I knew I wanted my collections to explore display and knew I now wanted them to be personal to me. I just wasn’t getting anywhere. what am I really trying to say within my work?
I began thinking about what artist’s interest me, and I was thinking about Damien Hirst’s work and how no-one appears to understand why he has arranged objects like he has or even used those objects. It is only once you begin to learn about his work and the deeper meaning behind the work that they really begin to make sense. Even without knowing what his collections of objects are meant to show, just by looking at his work you begin to get your own judgements about what you see and think. I also like the shock and abjection factor a lot of work has such as Hirst’s, Roth’s, Emin’s and Franco B’s. This is when I realised my collections had to be personal to me but also maybe involve me in them more. So I needed to be creating work such as ones involving make-up wipes which contains remains of me on them. It has to be a self portrait of me. It has to portray myself through my collecting perhaps investigating abjection through it as well as the display. This is what I will now explore.
