Following my interest in Dieter Roth’s work, I began to explore my own way of collecting waste material. I have began to collect every receipt I receive. This will portray me through this paper manner. It will be personal by displaying to the viewer items I have purchased. In a way this is showing me, but in a different form. Similar to that of a self-portrait through an auto-biographical collection.
This sort of personal collecting has really fascinated from looking at Dieter Roth. How the artist can portray themselves through a collection and by pushing the levels of shock and disgust through this can really provoke reaction and response. I initially displayed them all lined up on my wall in chronological order to show system and order. However different ways of display perhaps would affect how the viewer reads this. For example what would happen if the receipts were to be grouped into amounts of money spent, or times of the day, or particular shops? Would anything change?
