{"id":2428,"date":"2024-09-15T07:22:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T06:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2024-09-19T16:59:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T15:59:56","slug":"collection-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/2024\/09\/15\/collection-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"Collection Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final phase of this journey examines my own collections to establish if there are relationships or commonalities between them. The first step in this process was to identify all my collections \u2013 not a simple or quick task. However, I was aided by the CONTRAB list of collections<\/a> and by the diagram of THE BOX<\/a> \u2013 both described in earlier posts. I simply put all the collection names from these two sets of material down the left side of a spreadsheet, and each different room\/area in my house and garden in a separate column along the top. Then I took the contents of each room in turn and marked which collection names they belonged to. For example, one of the bedrooms contained Books, Furniture, Linen and Soft Furnishings, Wall Hangings, Lamps, and Clothing & Accessories. Having done that I summarised what objects each collection name contained. For example, the collection name \u2018Books\u2019 had books of various different types in 12 rooms\/areas. Then followed a rather laborious process of rationalising and renaming the collection names to satisfy my own thinking about what collections I possess. The outcome was a list of 92 collections<\/a> in the high-level categories shown below. Note that collections belonging solely to my wife are excluded, but collections owned jointly are included: hence household goods and the like appear on the list.<\/p>\n