This obsession is full time and they
say it isn’t about the money but more of obsession with their “babies”. Pat has
loved cabbage patch dolls since the first one she brought in 1985, but this
isn’t here favourite it is Kevin that her and Joe brought together and he is
now the spokesmen for their cabbage patch empire.
There are many psychologists and
behavioural experts who have looked in to collectors and why they collect, and
how they are somewhat different to hoarders. As collectors are very well
organised, they know exactly where everything is, and they are very proud of
their collection. People like Freud and Jean Baudrillard have looked into
collecting in quite some depth.
Pat and Joe Prosey are very good
example of Jean Baudrillard ideas that “we are incapable of living in the
dimension of absolute singularity” so the Prosey cant live with out the cabbage
patch dolls they see them as there children, they have created this fantasy
land for them with the Prosey even creating an amusement park worth £2000 which
takes 2hours to set up just for their cabbage patch dolls. Joe even quotes
“that its a little fantasy world which you can walk out of everyday life” being
with the cabbage patch dolls in their own little world makes the Prosey happy
they aren’t harming anyone.
Baudrillard point “typically a
collector will refer to a “lovely piece” rather than a lovely carving. Once the
object stops being defined by its function, it’s meaning is entirely up to the
subject” is one that describe the attitude that the Prosey have with there
cabbage patch dolls with them referring to them as their children and not as
there original function of just being a doll. The Prosey despises their beloved
cabbage patch dolls being called dolls, which they are intended.
So are the Prosey wrong for collecting
these dolls, are the obsessed or is it just harmless fun. Personally each too
their own.
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