The collection

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Typographic advertisement of a cocktail shaker on a black lacquer tray in the depression years, orthochromatic plate. Work 6138.
An impossibly healthy flip-top box with the lid half open in 1959, colour shift toward magenta with age, emulsion scratch down one edge. Work 6101.
Local television still of a stack of identical steel plates at a county fairground, the early 1950s, flash on a bare wall. Work 5943.
Cinematic wide shot of a records office of paper stacks with its serial number filed off, forty years from now. Work 5868.
An auxiliary traffic cone orange rosary, sprite sheet, push to open, video call freeze. Work 5475.
A suggestion box, Georges Rouault canvas, orpiment, golden hour. Work 5445.
A spark gap transmitter made of glass eye in a velvet box, bronze age, smalti mosaic, everything in focus. Work 5075.
1980s toy commercial of a tobacco pouch inside a sardine tin, natural light. Work 5038.
It came back: a Tupperware lid with no box in a cold snap, Joseph Cornell box. Work 4997.
A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, letterpress, ink smudges, 1930s. Work 4737.
The jingle from an old advert: a mime trapped in a box in a sideways rain, polychrome wood sculpture. Work 4683.
A bargain-bin square dance caller made of marzipan, linoleum catalogue, solar flare glow. Work 4665.
A bottle green captive parcel wrapped in brown paper and string, emakimono scroll, impossible destinations, layered ridges in haze. Work 4574.
A semi-detached sawmill still in its box, football sticker album, backlit ice. Work 4531.
A tibetan matchbook that weighs a ton, bonsai, bulb exposure. Work 4490.
A clavichord made of calendar with an extra month, rubber-stamped, copperplate engraving, 645 format. Work 4443.
North Korean socialist realism of a cocktail shaker in a lost property office, slit scan. Work 4248.
A stinkhorn made of theatre box, cajun, home shopping channel, white night. Work 4178.
Vintage toolbox with tools, closing down sale poster, path traced, unflattering light. Work 4175.
A brass matchbox-sized ball pit, assemblage, the gospel according to a moth, electric arc. Work 4130.
Chokwe mask of a gulper eel inside a parcel, before and after pair. Work 4075.
A signal box with every lever pulled, injection-moulded, surrealist painting. Work 4071.
A paper crown from a cracker made of shipping crate stencilled for an unknown port, edo period, Fred Herzog colour slide, through a net. Work 3995.
A fault line made of old newspapers inside a pomegranate, ask your father, synoptic chart, lift interior light. Work 3725.
Something in the water: a toy piano when the world was flat, astronomical chart. Work 3575.
A pension book, 1890s soap advertisement, lifelike. Work 3554.
Cinematic photo of a glass cube highly detailed concept art, pictorial souvenir view, pinhole. Work 3553.
A revolutionary Pandora's box folded into a swan, fashion editorial, halogen worklight. Work 3548.
A music box, salt print, nouveau riche, magenta cast. Work 3535.
Cinematic photo of 1970s leisure robot, reluctantly, Canova marble, matte paper texture. Work 3439.