OCD is an element within collecting which I have been interested in through researching in my dissertation and keen to explore further. Often with avid collectors they are very specific with how their belongings are ordered and displayed. These end up being religious traits they follow everyday of their lives. For example a family friend Hazel who focused in my work last year. She would have her collections all specifically organised by animal and object. For example all of the pandas together, all of the clocks together and so on. she did this to distinguish between them all. i believe this is due to a natural reaction to order and the more she collected, the harder it got for her to separate them. She gained emotional attachment to them due to living in the house with them 24/7.
I wanted to look at this OCD element within my work to see how I could explore it. Therefore I took a trip into town and in every charity shop I entered I would buy a pair of silver shoes. I then ended up with a collection of silver shoes which had been bought through this rule. Does this therefore make it a collection? As i obeyed the rule I set and this was my intended outcome? Or is this too small to be classed as a collection and there needs to be more meaning behind the collection rather than just an accumulation of silver shoes?
I decided to hang these from my space as it is not the normal way to display shoes in your house or in shops. Display is an element which really fascinates me within collecting. Will the viewer take more notice as the shoes are suspended somewhere abnormal for them to be rather than on the floor like you would perhaps expect?
