Little collection

People usually hold different ideas about collecting. Some collectors are even been thought as freak. In my opinion, collecting is a good habit and collectors are really cool.

"For a child, collecting represents the most rudimentary way to exercise control over the outer world: by laying things out, grouping them, handling them."(Jean Baudrillard, 1994 P.9)

I have watched a video about a woman named Kathy Libraty who collects doll for more than 25 years. The title is 2 Million Dollar Doll Collection. In the video, she showed us all of her collection which be sorted out into different sections. I astonished when i watching the video and wondering how can she get so many dolls and spent how much time on them. It is not only about such big amount of money but also the time she spent on those dolls. Dolls been arranged by the Kathy very carefully. She dress up dolls and photograph them. On the entrance way to kitchen, there is a big cabinet which displayed full of small dolls. Kathy does room setting for little dolls families or we can say different series of dolls. She set up doll house for different groups of doll separately.  It seems the lady created a wonderful little world of dolls she collected.

"This first function has to do with the subject's project of asserting practical control within the real world, the second with an enterprise of abstract mastery whereby the subject seeks to assert himself as an autonomous totality outside the world."(Jean Baudrillard, 1994 P.14)

It reminds me of a doll house exhibition in hammersmith hall last year. That was my first time to see so many such beautiful tiny house at once. A lot of people are keen to create a perfect world for their collected dolls. 

I believe that people collecting things for some reasons. Maybe she is facing a big pressure in the real world or dolls means a lot in her lonely childhood. It might just simply explained as the lovely attractive appearance of dolls. We can list as many reasons as we can. I collect antique hats because i think they are delicate and the shape won't be produced again. 

There is nothing wrong with collecting even through there are some strange collections. They still harmless. Collectors spent all their time and energy in built up their little world. So they won't create big trouble to our society unless they collect human body.
In the society today everything seems to be too disposable. The collectors treasure the items that seems disposable to normal eyes. Therefore i respect collectors a lot.


Bibliography
Barcroftmedia (2011). 2 Million Dollar Doll Collection [Internet]. Available from:<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MGlSy_Fpas> [Accessed 7 December 2011]