A Tale of Lost Items



Museums are bureaucratical institutions by necessity. The meticulous work that is required to keep a museum running is enormous — so how come an item in the collection gets lost? This is, perhaps, a non-catalog, for a non-exhibit, for objects that we can only know through documents, images, and/or descriptions, traces of their metadata.

2022

A Tale of Lost Items



Museums are bureaucratical institutions by necessity. The meticulous work that is required to keep a museum running is enormous — so how come an item in the collection gets lost? This is, perhaps, a non-catalog, for a non-exhibit, for objects that we can only know through documents, images, and/or descriptions, traces of their metadata.

2022


(this project does NOT include the design for RISD Museum bag)

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