The first item appears to be a small bowl or urn made of white stone or marble. Because of the rounded base, it probably originally was held at the indented rim near the top of the rim. It most likely held something, perhaps oil or incense. It looks like it was handmade  from one piece of stone and possibly from Ancient Greece or the Roman Empire.

The second item is a necklace or jewelry strung using hundreds of white bone or teeth of an animal. This looks handmade and the maker would have had to drill a hole through each bone or tooth in order to string the necklace. It looks like it was for decorative purposes and could have been worn by either a male or female.

The third object is a light-colored flint, arrowhead or a tool. This is most likely from prehistoric times before more sophisticated tools were used. This flint was made by hand and used for hunting animals, cutting and scraping meat, and possibly carving other tools.

Lisa Kim

Post-graduate student

Digital and print communications, project management, online marketing

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1.         Function: decoration, had an initial artistic value. I assume from the art nouveau period because of the shape. Machine was used to produce. The bottom is not flat because it was held with a metal carcass that was attached to the wall. Size: of a palm. Fine marble in good condition. Maybe the design was commissioned especially for the private house of wealthy people that then donated it to a museum.

2.         Ritual accessory like a necklace. From oceanic island cultures. Was worn by prayers.  Size: to cover the chest. Made from the animal teeth, attached together with a string of a natural proveneance (e.g animal hair) that was probably replaced with a new one. Was found during the expedition and brought to the museum. 

3.         Palaeolithic tool to cut/ dig/ scrub. Size: to fit in the arm. Basic skills, although difficult to make. Handmade. In a good condition. The stone should be very firm.

Anna Radzevych, 21. MA Culture Curation and Criticism CSM  

This is a necklace made up of teeth, although it is unclear what animal the teeth belong to. I am also unable to tell where the object comes from and when it dates to, but it probably had spiritual value, to ward off evil spirits, or to confer bravery upon the wearer, perhaps when going into battle or hunting. It no longer has this value, now being a museum piece representing the traditions and customs of people who are distant in time and place, but a similar shape and function can be found today in the rosary beads used to pray by Roman Catholics, and still very much part of current traditions in certain parts of Western Europe.

Eva Oddo, Student, 34

1: I guess the object is from ancient China, made of jade, hand made. The function may be a container. The size may be like a bowl, it has some crack on it so must be through a long time.

2: I guess the object is a necklace, for decoration in ancient times. I think it may not from ancient China, perhaps from minority. The texture looks like jade, and the year of it may nearer than the first object.

3: I cannot tell what it is, but the size of it is small according to comparing with the black background’s pattern. It may a piece of precious stone.

Yolanda Liu, Student, MA Culture Criticism and Curation, 23

It looks like it was made of jade, and originated from China. Its smooth surface and outline reminds me of the ancient therapy of massage. Put some essence oil extracted from mysterious herbs, and it will penetrate through the hole in the center and drop on the skin of the human body. At the same time, one moves it up and down in circulation on another one’s body. It might have been used in a feudal society in China.

This may be decoration that can be worn around necks or waists, especially in some religious occasion in primitive communes. It looks like to be made from shell or tooth. I can even imagine the picture in which the inhabitants were dancing excitingly in a campfire evening party.

It may be a tooth of some one. It might be found in a cave in ruins of some primitive commune. This can be the tooth of an important and respectable leader with that ancient community. His descendants preserved it and used it in some religious occasions in memory of their ancestor. They may have the belief that the spirit of the dead could be passed down through generations via parts of the body.

Lynn Lau, 23, student

Item 1 is some kind of vessel. possibly made of marble.  It would not be suitable for pouring or drinking from because of its wide lip,its weight ,its lack of a handle .It

Appears to contain a small candle, through its rounded base base makes it unsuitable for resting on a flat surface. It seems to show signs or wear at the neck. it  might have been suspended by its neck with oil and a wick inside –a candle –where it would glow possibly Greek or used in a temple.

Item  2 looks like a large number of small teeth,drilled laterally at the root or threaded tiglitty onto some length or twice.they could be fish teeth,possibly from a shark. The iterm’s construction would reguive considerable work and care ,which suggests that is is valuable .Perhaps a piece of jewelry perhaps on south pacific origin

Iterm 3 has the appearance of a stone age spear hand though its colour is unusual judging from its uneven surface it has been chipped tp give it a oint of sharp edges.

Michael Clarkson

Primary school teacher

Aged 56

Object –non political

Very atrractive, Simple elegant shape 。polished smooth surface .i think natural polished stone or  maybe wax .it was a useful house hold iten with a  light inside it, but no mark. I think it was suspended –hung up or supported ,mot on a flat base.

Possibly very old but ageless .many culture could have made this.

This interesting object is a collection of teeth or claws,not human. But put on a string .it could be money or decoration ,the white color suggests fish teeth or shark

Maybe from the pacific ocean country. I have seen people from the  pacific islands wear such decoration from fish.

This looks to me  like an early tool made to cut .It is a stone axe. It is made by hand ,chipping away the stone. It has a sharp edge for cutting .Maybe the stone is hand-made by  early humans ,hand held to cut . it is stone age .most of human history is stone aged. Some of these people lived in caven and painted animails 40000 years ago. Tool for hunting.

Phillida bunkle

Retired and have worked in a university and been a politican

Aged 70

WIP

Statement:

I am interested in the gap between the reality and the ideology which especially happens in the museum. The authority educational institution as a medium convey the message which we believe it. The anamorphic museum will indicate the relationship between human decisions and inanimate objects, critique the authority of the museum and demystify the rules inside the human manipulated space. As a graphic designer, I practice my work like a Stereoscope,to show the three-dimensional world in a playful way.

Question:

My start point is collecting the interpretations and I want to create theanamorphic museum, which is the museum lost the reality in human’s interpretations. My personal issue is that is very hard to get visual element in the investigate process, how to fix this problem in the research process? 

Rachel's workshop-----What you see depends on where you stand

invisible city －－Clarice

And then the shards of the original splendor that had been saved, by adapting them to more obscure needs, were again shifted. They were now preserved under glass bells, locked in display cases, set on velvet cushions, and not because they might still be used for anything, but because people wanted to reconstruct through them a city of which no one knew anything now.

More decadences, more burgeonings have followed one another in Clarice. Populations and customs have changed several times; the name, the site, and the objects hardest to break remain. Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead. There is no knowing when the Corinthian capitals stood on the top of their columns: only one of them is remembered, since for many years, in a chicken run, it supported the basket where the hens laid their eggs, and from there it was moved to the Museum of Capitals, in line with other specimens of the collection. The order of the era's succession has been lost; that a first Clarice existed is a widespread belief, but there are no proofs to support it. The capitals would have been in the chicken runs before they were in the temples, the marble urns could have been planted with basil before they were filled with dead bones. Only this is know for sure: a given number of objects is shifted within a given space, at times submerged by a quantity of new objects, at times worn out and not replaced; the rule is to shuffle them each time, then try to assemble them. Perhaps Clarice has always been only a confusion of chipped gimcracks, ill-assorted, obsolete."