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Crafting Nature: A Visual Anthropology of Natural History Collecting at the Smithsonian |
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2015- |
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Digital C-prints, 30" x40"
Currently being organized into a book with essays
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Objects tell stories – through their social lives, their materials, their paths of exchange, and the different meanings they acquire as they shift between contexts. This project traces the path specimens take within the museum, following their transformation from living things into museum specimens into data. |