Creating a short statement within a 200 word boundary was challenging, as I have so much to write about my project and what it is aiming to achieve. Therefore, I decided to write down several points about my work as a whole, and then bind them all together.
“All I Have Become” is an exploration into the life of the hoarder, and the collector, and how these two defining traits are not quite as mutually exclusive as we would all care to believe.
“All I Have Become” is an exploration into the life of the hoarder, and the collector, and how these two defining traits are not quite as mutually exclusive as we would all care to believe.
The series aims to allow to viewer to decide
whether they feel the subjects are hoarders, collectors, or simply consumers,
whilst questioning their own habits. Inspired by the common stereotypical
representation of hoarders, and who they are, that has been generated by the
media, paired with knowledge obtained from Daniel Miller’s book “The Comfort of
Things”, Laura Jane Parkinson sets out to capture the collections that these
people have maintained for a number of years, and how collecting and hoarding
objects is becoming increasingly common. She captures the boxes in which their
collections are stored, within the environment that they are kept.
In a consumerist society where people define
themselves by what they purchase, there is a very fine line between collecting,
and hoarding.
What’s in your box?
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