Why Look at Collected Animals?
2007
10 x 7 inches
72 pages
scanned found clippings, various papers, digitally printed, perfect bound
unpublished

A rumination on our relatonships with animals, with collecting, and with collecting animals. John Berger’s Why Look at Animals? is paired with selected images from a found picture file of animals (center). The backs of these same images are paired with excerpts on collecting (right) from Jean Baudrillard’s The System of Objects.