The first vertebra of the cervical spine
The first vertebra of the cervical spine.
COLLECTING IS NOT MERELY the accumulation of objects but also of information about these objects and their universe. The same goes for stories. There is a lot of love involved in the formation of a collection, in persevering down that road against all the hindrances a beginner might encounter in the market – even though that is changing nowadays. I believe that a private collection should reflect the collector’s taste. Unless the goal is to accumulate capital or gain social validation. The delight in collecting is to make it on your own; one might even consider the occasional specialist’s opinion, but the last word must always be the collector’s. Maybe because my first contact with the act of collecting was an affectionate one, my tendency is to appreciate the collections that reflect the collectors’ tastes, rather than those established by the “time” we live in. Especially because this time/taste is in constant change, and if choices were not made out of affection, a collector might find himself stuck with pieces he doesn’t like and can’t sell because the market – the same market that initially established that taste – changed and will no longer absorb them. Love… is important.