Sunday, 15 March 2015

The Ticket Collector

In 1997, I travelled from Prague, Moscow, St Petersburg overland on the Transiberian Express to China and then Thailand, Laos and finally Indonesia. On the way I collected scraps of paper, tickets, cigarette and match box packets, stamps, and anything that caught my eye. Below is a selection from that. I remembered this scrapbook after Benjamin Pollock's Toy Shop asked people to share their collections on their mini social gallery in celebration of the current Barbican exhibition, Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector.  If you want to see other people's collections and find out more about the Pollock's competition and how to share your own collections, see my last post or check out their Facebook page.

Mongolian money, stamps and maps

Moscow and ticket for Transiberian perhaps

Prague

The stamps on the left feature the Thai King Bhumbibol Adulyadej, rather coolly holding a camera here. 


China, water bottle, cigarette pack and ticket for Great Wall

Laos

Mongolia

China
Aeroflot mints, cigarettes? I am not sure.





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