Artistic Responses
The Portable Wonder Chamber
Returning to the Philosophers’ Table has been distilled into a suitcase which will join the traveling museum of the Book Apothecary.
The case includes:
– black beans like those cultivated by Isabel Lima
– the brush used to paint Itr Yru’s portrait
– Sheree Mack’s poem about Bahkten Hor
– dust like that collected by Sally Madge and used in her Fiction
– apparatus for closer inspection
– salt like that which preserved the platypus and wombat
– imprints of paleobotany specimens as both fossil and ink residue
– a jawbone washed ashore in a similar manor to the ribbon fish
– the sound of the windows of the world, the Occulus Mundi
– the hollow left by Stephen Livingstone’s Manifold Works