So Kate I've being thinking about what a library is as opposed to a collection. Libraries do not have to be complete but they are repositories of information. This information does not have to be of interest or of real use but perhaps it needs to have potential use. I've just read this book about the man that made the first geological map of britain. He was involved in digging the canal system and collected samples from all the different strata and catalouged and recorded everything and found out loads of amazing stuff but he could only work this stuff out when his collection got to a certain size - a critical mass of information. The correlation I picked up between his and your library was that he didn't know what he was looking for when he started collecting he was just gathering evidence that he had a hunch would lead to something.
So I think that your friend was right and you need to just get stuck into collecting your library and it will become something and demonstrate potential use.
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yes i think your right, re collecting and then edit or work out or whatever. It is a reposistory of info yet it still needs to be catalogued , evein it work is presented with no info on drawings.Im worried about psuedo science in terms of cataloguing, i dont want a dry archive, like normal, but also dont want a computer only based one - think of the corbusier piece in evocative objects. But think i have aphasia, the inability to pick any from of cataloguing, as everything over laps or doesnt fit. As im interested in sticks, stones, rope/string and metal items these are where im starting.
I think it all boils down to use-value, in the same way that artemis is a strange group of items of little value in most cases, yet its potential use-value is enormous.
I think your on to something as it feels like a genoine endeavour rather than a psudo or clepto whim. Integrety and honesty to itself is something you are very good at - perhaps a methodology of collecting colating and cataloging is the thing which will save you from fetishing individual objects as they become part of a collective and are defined and refined by their place within it. The systems we develop for running our lives and accounts are defined by the requirements of the system so maybe you have to have a rough idea of the size of your collection so you can work out a system of ordering. We can go to the rope shop - wire shop plumbers merchants iron mongers nuts and bolt shop and city serpents on monday if ya like. STEVE
I suggest that taking advice on collecting from someone who has such a blinding eye for fetishistic objects themselves be an object lesson in itself !!!!
your right, he sure aint Malinowski!
no only joking!!!
I don't know you will be telling me I'm fetishing my Leather Gimp mask and riding crop next. This point may be interesting though as it presents us with a difference in approach and perhaps we can learn from it. I am in my artemis work looking at fetishing a thing but perhaps outside it's object - the idea or representation of a thing that exists without it's substance so I'm avoiding been seduced by the charms of real objects and their histories. Kate is removing the objects from their pysicality through drawing but worries that this interferes to an extent with what makes the objects worth drawing in the first place. But it sounds like the library is making sense. All the kids are still sick so I have little time for tese thoughts at the moment - going to book me a couple of solid week with no interuptions in the new year.
a couple of sordid weeks is what your fetish needs my man...
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