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I found the Fred Wilson piece pretty interesting, how he can organize his art practice without physically making anything with his hands, and instead using his own collections of objects and going through the process of grouping them around certain contexts, such as his statues from the early part of the century that represented black people in a negative way. I like how his organizing these things into more specific collections is his way of somehow getting rid of them, but not before he really gets in touch to them by having to really think about how they fit as objects in relation to the others. I think thats a really interesting approach for our wunderkammer seeing as how we will be using the museum's collection instead of our own, or making our own things, by organizing them we will get closer to the objects we choose in how we contextualize them. I liked the White article for how he approached the contexts he used to group his cabinet of curiosities that seemed to me to go beyond the obvious physical characteristics of what he chose, and began to use them for what they represent to us already.

-guillermo