How does one choose?

"...among other things, there are many ...that is why we named it ..." Jacques Cartier, Sept. 6 1535. Ile aux Coudres

" And I walked out this day..." Diary, Sir Joseph Banks. Fellow Royal Botanical Society. Botanist, Voyage of the Niger, Newfoundland. 1766

"The plants are quite nameless, I take the liberty of bestowing names upon them according to inclination or fancy." Catherine Parr Traill, The Backwoods of Canada 1836

"The information in any real situation is infinitely rich. There is more to see than anyone sees and more to know than anyone knows." Psychologist Ulrich Neisser, Cognition and Reality 1976

My work examines collections of information. I am interested in how specific information is recognized, desired and acquired; in how it is ordered and named as belonging to a collection. I am interested in how a science, a history and many other narratives may be created based on the choices, organization and context of the collection.