Collecting and Gathering

I tend to have a fondness for small glass containers, mostly jars, but also vases and the like. I am also a big freecycler and believe that if we allocated our resources, each of us would have what we needed at the time we needed it. Images of attics and basements and closets filled with stuff, good useful stuff, at the right time.....I also often procrastinate by gathering and collecting, it seems a precursor to actually revising doctoral papers or grading or reading, activities that require me to stay in one place- my mind wanders and immediately goes to art projects and processes that I have missed, assemblages, sculptures that have been taking up space in my mind without time for action- arise when there is deadlines and with minimal time to complete a paper. Above are photos of such gathering and collecting via a generous freecycler, 200 stated, I believe to be over 500 mini jars with screw on lids 1.5 to 2 inches, which held small computer parts. Ideas are endless of how I can use them, fill one up each day for 365 days, create an installation, fill them with my many unorganized beads, grow plants in each of them to later offer to others, give them to my students for potential art inspiration....in each case it reminds me of my need and according to Dissanayake, our human need to collect, arrange, gather and create. When offered these small glass containers I could not refuse and even now as I write I am antsy to hold them, fill them, put them up to the window light......but first revisions to my qualifying papers, which present a different creative process.....