bequest, donated, collected, confiscated, exchanged, on loan, purchased restitution, unknown

I can't believe its just under two weeks till the residency at MoDA begins. Strange really, because we have all been thinking, talking and developing ideas for ages now, you can't really confine your work as its grows and takes on life, these thoughts and wanderings are so crucial to the work. If you look closely at the image you can see the tiny sticky labels and tags used to price the objects in this charity shop window. I have been thinking about labelling in museums and have found that Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford has some excellent labels, many of them being hand written, which creates a signature for the object. The objects sit in collections or families of similar to themselves, such as money, charms or shrunken heads. The handwritten labels, seem to make the object more mythical, but also personal, they in themselves become a museum object. Pitt Rivers Museum is really worth a visit.