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title: collecting
date: 2018-11-19T12:49:00+01:00
author: admin
canonical_url: "https://www.juligudehus.net/en/collecting"
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# collecting

 - have a lookattend a per­son­al guid­ed tour through my toi­let tis­sue archive [here on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQtGgqshYsK95SfqhhhrOCg/videos) (only in Ger­man up to now)
 
  I seem to collect just like I breathe: casually and organically. Collecting is vital for me. It provides nutritious substance for much of my work. My collections surround me like fertile earth around my creative seed.

I pick up trivia and oddities, I botanise [2d and 3d](https://www.juligudehus.net/en/2d-kusst-3d-methoden-workshop) designs, phenomenons, texts, and words – partly in drawers and boxes, partly digitally. Some I keep because I think that one day, I might want to use them one way or another. Each time I find something that I can integrate into an existing collection, it delights and satisfies me. A lot of my findings collect themselves. Where there are three of a kind, they form the foundation of another collection. In most cases, I do not yet know what I am going to create with it.

I consider collecting to be a cultural technique. Sorting is strongly related. Both have to do with a certain view of the world that brings me much joy – an awareness of correlations and connections that are more or less, obvious.

Once I counted how many collections I have, both analog and digitally. It was around one hundred. On a meta level, you might say therefore, that I also collect collections.

I will gladly show you some of my collections, and tell you something about them. For example, my large collections of toilet tissues or plastic screw caps. Just [drop me a line](mailto:mail@juligudehus.net) and let me know when you are in the area!