Nobody was surprised to learn that his house had been just as crowded, but it was odd to think that his pack ratting might have been the result of a medical condition. His retail storefront had always been immensely dense with hides and heads and antlers. He ran into his basement to try to put it out, got trapped, and quickly died of smoke inhalation.
#Highbrow furniture closed tv
A few years back, a family friend-a big-game taxidermist who ended up making more money renting out mounted animals to TV and film shoots than he did with his trade-was killed in an electrical fire that began in his basement. On these same TV shows, a voice-over regularly tells us that hoarding behaviour is unsanitary and unsafe, and both are correct. Maybe collecting isn’t a sickness, and maybe hoarding is actually a valid impulse. Once it’s there, it’s pretty much there to stay. The truth, though, is that there’s really no cure for hoarding. TV reality shows on hoarding (A&E’s Hoarders TLC’s Hoarding: Buried Alive) would have us believe that if hoarders are given dozens of helpers and a trained therapist, they can be cured by the end of an episode. If someone with such a proclivity experiences a quick and catastrophic loss-often the death of a close relative, frequently in a car accident-hoarding generally kicks in within approximately eighteen to twenty-four months. First, there needs to be a pre-existing hoarding proclivity (not uncommon, with our hunter-gatherer heritage).
Basically: Where does collecting end and hoarding begin? One thing psychologists seem to agree on is that hoarding is grounded in deep loss. I’ve written before about links between collecting and hoarding-recoding art-collecting and art-fair behaviour as subdued forms of hoarding. The Alternative Realism of Kent Monkman.One Photographer’s Artistic Encounters with the Selfie Generation.
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