In particular, the artist - who can see beauty in the most unlikely subjects - is drawn to those objects with agricultural and local associations with his beloved North Otago.
Nearly a lifetime of "residual graphic magpie collecting" resulted in an extensive collection, acquired usually for an object's beauty but with huge emphasis on the stories that it told.
Mr Pollock has now given a voice to some of those items, with an exhibition of paintings - accompanied by the artefacts that inspired them - at the Forrester Gallery. Running until March 18, it is called simply ArtyFacts and it is a ripper.
It features everything from the door of the Austin truck used by Duntroon horse trainer, the late Stewart Sutherland, to an antique ice-breaker designed to smash the ice on stock troughs in winter which Mr Pollock found while he was cleaning out a 4m deep well.
There is the stool used by his late sister Margaret for milking cows when she was a member of the wartime organisation the New Zealand Land Army, and Bill Cogger's barber's chair.
Mr Cogger cut hair in the building now known as the Flying Pig Cafe in Duntroon, having converted it from a billiard saloon in the late 1920s.
A man of many talents, he also sold and repaired boots, sold garden seeds and ran the local school bus.
Even more than ever, Mr Pollock has an eye for the quirky and the interesting, the unique and the different "and that's what gets the stories".
"That's where the lovely unique twists come from. To me, stories and art are virtually the same thing. They all tell stories.
"One of my self-imposed missions is to salvage the good part of life. Not to take refuge in things past, but to see if we can dredge up the good things, the conversational ability, the wit ... the values.
"I wallow in the way I can use humour as a vehicle. It's the most potent vehicle," he said.
He had no shortage of ideas, coming up with "a cracker" at 3am one day last week, recalling how an old teamster showed him how to roll up the reins from a six-horse team. Worth a painting? You bet.
As for his next project - there could be another series of the same thing, with the subject matter "limitless".
Ever the collector, Mr Pollock admitted he had made a "monumental U-turn", with the bulk of his collection going to the Kurow Museum, and he was now just collecting stories and sayings.
"I'd probably get them into two normal sized rooms - if the filing's good," he quipped.
However, he had at least another 35 artefacts he wanted to illustrate.
"And it'll be inflationary too, I suppose," he mused.