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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:

here is a miniature tabletop wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, which I've made. It's named "Perhaps Now is the Time."

It contains a number of artifacts, precious in a non-monetary sense:
curios and oddities that I have collected in daily life and my travels.

They are united by one common spirit: “Cool! But... why?”

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A tabletop cabinet is shown with one drawer hanging open. The drawer contains a number of curious objects, such as a tiny pink skull on a matchstick, a coin labeled "No Cash Value" in an aluminum shroud, a lump of Himalayan pink sea salt, and a tiny wooden hourglass in a seashell. Most artifacts are labeled with an old-looking label. The cabinet itself is strange, too; its top surface is made with a patchwork of vintage circuit boards, with some hand-drawn traces and unusual colors visible.
Four individual artifacts: A well-worn wooden domino, which looks almost handmade. Its label: "From the Days Inn parking lot..." A well-worn brass keyhole, labeled, "Is this the answer or the question?" Next to it is a dark, damaged penny In a plastic case which resembles a coin holder, but is a pushbutton legend from an industrial control enclosure reading "Réar arrêt d'urgence - E-stop reset." And finally, a curious little ring of bright copper windings, labeled "Motor winding."
The front of the wunderkammer with a horizontal and a vertical drawer open. Hanging objects are a little tough to see, but they include some strange blobby orange plastic and a sort of metal scoop (actually a projector bulb shroud). The other drawer contains mostly paper goods, tiny zines and artworks, such as a gel-printed leaf.
We can more clearly see the paper goods in this image, which also contains a ring of metal rings, labeled "Various," a fortune from Zoltar, a front panel from a commoditator controller, and a zine made of membrane keyboard flexible PCB.