Chapter 5: My Thoughts

I can't stop thinking about the museum that they mentioned that is the Mount Vernon Museum of Incandescent Lighting. While I was reading, I started to visualize all of these bright lights illiminating this tiny room in the bottom of his house. It seems a little strange to have about 75,000 lightbulbs in cases all around this tiny room, but I admire the fact that Dr.Hicks( the collector) would have done this. He as an artist, strived to collect as many lightbulbs as he could. Each lightbulb he collected has a story attached to it in some way. In other words, he brought all of these light bulbs together in one tiny room to be shared with the public.This then turned into his story of 'the man who shined the way ' or something like that. Dr.Hicks seems to be the kind of outgoing type that has a loving quirkiness about him. I would have loved to meet this fellow artist, who's art like others may start of small and then end up into something big. 

I always wanted to start my own collection of some kind of object. First , I tried those Dum-Dum wrappers on the lollipops you would get. So, I tried to start to collect them and lost interest soon after a good three weeks. I only had 25 of them, but sooner or later the collection had dissappeared out of sight. Second, I tried to collect Snapple bottle caps. I have a good amount of them now, but I am still working on it. I collect them for the facts underneath. I want to get 723, for that is the highest number fact I ever got. Lastly, I wanted to really see if I could actually collect something because I had to share with the my 1st grade class something I collected.  I started to get stumped on what I could collect, but there was no purpose to collect Qtips or even gum wrappers. It was getting to the point  that I had no idea what I wanted to collect. Until finally, my mom told me why not photos? No wonder we kept photo albums! We collected pictures over the years of me growing up as a child. Every single time we would take a new picture, it was a new addition to our collection. That was my art when I was a child, collecting photographs.