Don't collect but I paint. Usually landscapes which is about as unsurprising as breathing since landscape analysis is what I do for a living. But the thing about landscape painting is it allows me to explore a dimension of insight and expression that is not easily expressed in GIS. Also my painting is from a diffrent perspective from my work which also makes it interesting to me. I have been toying with the idea of going into more emotionally invested subject but still within the landscape theme. The difficulty in transition for me is two-fold: First, my training and interest is to set aside emotional investment to do a job; and second, emotion (IMO) requires transitions or revelations of some sort. I cannot seem to get a good grasp of how to do that without drawing a cartoonish study.