The Pathology of Collecting- Newborn baby Dolls.

This video depicts a woman who is obsessed with creating the most lifelike newborn baby dolls. She will easily spend 15 hours every day making and caring for these dolls. I find it really fascinating the way she can actually create something that looks so real, in the video it says that most doll makers take weeks to create lifelike effects such a drool but she can bake and finish a doll in a day. I believe this shows supreme creativity.

However, this compulsion to create the most lifelike newborn baby dolls which on the surface seems very strange but harmless underlies an almost psychopathic god complex; she wants to effectively create life. This is particularly unnerving. Baudrillard states that collecting can bring about a reactive satisfaction that is every bit as intense as sexual satisfaction.  “In which the object in question should undoubtedly be seen as a loved one... the passion for an object leads to its being construed as god’s special handiwork”. In this case, rather than god’s handiwork, it is her handiwork, which reaffirms my point that she is subconsciously trying to play god and gets an almost innate pure satisfaction from each newborn she creates.