The objects were photographed against a white ground using a single overhead light source — the same lighting protocol used in museum documentation. Some are genuinely old. Some are not old at all but have been damaged or altered by use in ways that make them look as though they might be.

The project started as a way of thinking about provenance — how an object acquires authority through the right kind of framing. It became something more uncomfortable: about the gap between what an object looks like it is and what it actually is.

Ongoing. Currently twelve objects documented. The inventory will eventually be published as a limited-run artist’s book.

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Selected entries:

Object 27 — Iron tool, purpose unclear. Possibly agricultural. Possibly not. Weight suggests it was used often. Acquired from a house clearance, 2019.

Object 28 — Ceramic fragment. One cut edge, one broken. The glaze colour has no obvious historical parallel that I have been able to find.

Object 29 — Wooden handle, no implement attached. Worn in a way that suggests left-hand dominant user. I am right-handed.