Collections

Posted by John Pedlow

A couple of weeks ago in class we were talking about collecting things as works of art. I have never actually thought about this as art and I am still not too sure about how it is considered art. Collecting stamps or golf balls to me is not really art unless you are talking about each individual one as an artistic work on its own. I started to think of what I collected as a child and I came up with that the only thing I ever collected for a significant amount of time was baseball cards. Then I started to think how you could consider baseball cards art and I came to the conclusion that I guess baseball cards can be considered art because really they are just photographs. So if you really want to stretch it there I guess you could say that I collected art on some level when I was a child.