It may appear as though Allan McCollum's pieces are part of an invasion, but global conquest is not on their agenda. Through the use of metal and wood, McCollum is able to make his many pieced projects.
McCollum is captivated with the idea of everyone having their own object. Although he knows this is an impossible task, this does not stop McCollum from trying. What also drives McCollum's works is whether or not it would tell an interesting story.
The pieces McCollum facilitates have a quality of mass production to them. He makes thousands of objects that you can only tell are different (and only slightly at that) when seen up close. So even though his objects are not quite the same, repetition still plays a big part in McCollum's art in the way he displays the objects and the materials he uses to create them. The shape McCollum's works take are dominantly organic and non-representative in nature. They actually look like those inkblots psychologists use.
Before, it would take McCollum a long time to come up with different shapes for his objects. Now with the help of computers, he is able to choose from a variety of parts to mix-match in literally billions of different shape combinations in a matter of seconds. So maybe his idea of an object for everyone isn't so far-fetched after all.
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"Allan McCollum." Art21. PBS, n.d. Web. 1 Mar. 2014.
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