I did another session of scanning (strangely, you would think this is a fast process but it is quite time consuming) with some new objects I collected, from those capsule machines (which my mum and sis are addicted to, they collect a lot. the other day we bought like ten plus home from one machine). capsules are of course inciting some thinking - like how it is really an empty shell (holding a surprise) and also the miniature relating to ideas of the souvenir. all of these ideas interest me, as well as the aesthetics of it all. i never am just interested in an object just by aesthetics (tho it is so at first in some cases, then you think through more and more things on how this connects to a million other things) like the licca doll here for instance, the 'barbie' figure is a clichéd, drawn out symbol, but I wasn't really looking at it in that way of representing 'the ideal woman', but I guess you have to acknowledge it. in some ways it is like taxidermy because it is a 'representative' of the 'species' in the licca collection. though of course there a many many of the same doll. tho a bit different manufactured. this makes me think of dean's reference to dafen oil painting village where each oil painting, although handpainted, is just copy after copy. its crazy. does it lose the original? it seems to be calling to benjamin's text.
