There is something enticing about a cabinet and a shelf.
A collection of life’s fragments arranged and re-configured into some kind of biography that represents a life. Or secrets and dates jumbled into an altered reality that you wish could be true. The epitome of time made visible.
During the Victorian era this was exemplified in the form of wonder cabinets: odds and ends, coins, insects, or shells were arranged in a mysterious tableau for us all to gaze at many years later and build a portrait of the collector in our minds.
I want to do that as a class.
I will provide a simple flat box already constructed with shelves.
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