The Art of Collecting

The art of collecting feels like an act of human nature, the satisfaction of finding and keeping things from stamps to My Little Ponies. Hoarding gets a lot of press these days but this is not a celebration of people getting buried under tins of cat food and hairnets. It’s about pretty things displayed nicely.

San Francisco-based artist Lisa Congdon displayed a collection a day for the whole of 2010. It’s a vast, inspi...