This is a photographic representation of my 'museum'. Ever since I was a child I have collected interesting bits and pieces, like a magpie. Much of this is complete rubbish - a half inch plastic mushroom with a face that I picked up on the Moscow Metro age 12, a broken lighter in a Madonna shape, bits of coloured glass, stone, wood, a feather, teeth, marbles, coins, a shoe buckle plastic toys. There are bits that I have bought like the land rover's and model ships, a letter posted on my birthday three hundred years ago, and other bits with value, like the brass buckle that I picked up in a local wood, that has been dated to the time of the civil war. But mostly it is junk. I had a thought that I could photograph it bit by bit, catalogue it, create a flash based catalogue. In going around the BA exhibitions, and galleries that I have visited recently, I have become more aware of the prevalance of collecting in contemporary art - from the obvious, like Hirst's shells, and the wonderful 'Dig' by Mark Dion. Last week in the seminars we were introduced to the work of a (now deceased) artist working in this vein - Candy Jernigan

Lots of what I have been looking at and researching this term seems to fit with collecting, collage, Dada...

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