Editor RSW

 

Ever since the beginning of recorded time mankind, regardless of country or origin has always, even in the most primitive of times, collected things.  Those things included everyday domestic wares, items of cloth or clothing, utensils for the hunt, sheltering items of warmth, items of comfort, rocks, arrowheads, drawings apparatus, bedding and things that add to our security, and adornment etc.  I would like to think that those very early primitive times, even during the origins and evolution of men, people did not collect for beauty and self-gratification, but for utilitarian comfort.

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With the ascendancy of the organizational church and religion, the reassurance of ideals, begat the sphere of holding on or containment of items, near and dear to us.  Additionally, the notion of collecting also included nostalgia.  With the preservation of both short term and long-term history, items were collected relating to one’s own historical context.  This relationship again begets collecting, or brings on the human tendency of holding on to items.  Mankind is innately possessed with the “psychic human notion” of both building and holding onto our collective immediacy.  There are things that make us warm, things that make us needy for more, and comfortable. We want to be surrounded by those things in our reassuring space and immediate environments.  These items whatever they are, causes a release of endorphins.  These endorphins ultimately satisfy our need for comfort and attainment. 

 

We humans seek, in our daily lives, to try and satisfy our insatiable feelings of comfort, accumulation, our urges of immediacy as well as the accumulation of trophies of accomplishments.  Human needs for collectibles or self-awarded trophy’s are met through collecting.  So piling all those human endorphins together, we attempt to envelope and signify our very existence through the reassurance of things to back up our being. 

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In the next paper, I will attempt to illustrate a forward marching direction toward the Renaissance in the development and patronage of the arts.  This will be through human interaction with goods and services.  Until next time!!!---(find your soul and collect—collect---and collect!!!)