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 <funder>Bucknell University Humanities Center</funder>
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 <head><title>Are You a Closet Collector?</title></head>
 I am a compulsive collector. Having just concluded a small survey, I now know that
 this is true of other women artists as well. These list were made by people who don’t
 admit to “collecting” as much as they do to "saving" or not throwing anything
 away.
 I asked a number of women to let us in on their secrets. The letter of inquiry was
 sent—xeroxed copies were made by the women who (in the tradition of the chain stitch
 xxx letter) reached other women. When the replies came in I realized that people save
 things that "touch" them rather than things which display the "proper
 touch".
 The survey showed that savers are not comfortable about their hoards and that artists
 provide the highest rationale for not throwing anything away; they save so that they
 can incorporate their "junk" in to their art. No one can fault a <emph>moral</emph>
 glutton.
 Underneath all of this collecting there is a strong emotional tie to a specific
 experience. A physical diary in a sense. A woman's personal history, her humanity,
 her old postcards, succulents, charms for bracelets, ticket stubs, anything free...
 life itself has to be saved.
 <byline><persName key="Muriel Castanis" ref="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6938606">Muriel Castanis</persName></byline>
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 Muriel Castanis is a woman, a wife, a mother and a sculptor, soon to change the order to
 a woman, a wife, a sculptor and a mother.
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