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I have been researching Barbara Kruger for my Visual Culture essay and have been researching about her theories. She combines statement texts and statement images to create dramatic powerful images. Often in white black and red. During my research the theme of collection has cropped up. She has posed the question WHY? why do we collect? why do we catagorise?

"Maybe it's about a kind of comfort. Maybe it's about setting things straight, putting first things first. Whatever it is , it surely has a hold on us. We seem intent on labelling and ordering. It's how we get on with our lives, how we proceed."

"If we experience life only through the filters of rigid categorisations, and binary oppositions, things wil definitely be business as usual."

"Running in place at the speed of light, we defensively cling to our unexamined notion of categories, our dilapidated signposts in a bleak landscape. They make things simple again. Reflections of control, they reassure us that there's a time and a place for everything. Declaring what's right and wrong, they can strengthen stereotypes and murmur the false humilitie of "common sense."

These quotes are from remote control Power Control and the world of Appearances by Barbara Kruger

I found they are really significant and relevant to my project. She has highlighted a significant question in my project. What would you do without order in our lives.

I went to visit Barbara kruger's exhibition PASTE in London the other week it was amazing to see her images in real life after doing so much reading about her. Her methodolgy and product appears so simple and obvious but her way of thinking could not be recreated by anybody.

There is somuch meaning beneath these pieces a lot of it related to gender and I find it fascinating how considered this work is.