Yep, that's precisely the title of my piece. I'm an avid antique collector, especially when it comes to skeleton keys, so my skeleton key collection is the center of my project. The logic of my ideas is as follows:
-Antique skeleton keys have lots of history, but most of the time, since they ARE antiques after all, the doors they unlock are either gone of forgotten
-Modern keys have also replaced almost all skeleton keys (better technology=safer homes, etc), making them obsolete
-So...skeletons could really be put on display at museums and such, since they are useless but still unique
-Also, thieves trying to break through locks wouldn't get anywhere by copying skeleton keys
-So, put key impressions in a shadowbox (like the kinds of cases used to put rare bug/butterfly collections on display) to play with the idea of picking locks that don't exist, and with the idea of putting historical artifacts on display even if their specific history is forgotten
Materials:
Skeleton Keys
New materials:
Clay (for impressions)
Wood
Nails
Definition: Antiquity!
(adv)- a state of being in which an object is ceremoniously worshiped and put on display without having any real meaning or purpose to celebrate
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I think this is going to be good, Emily. Let me know if you have any follow-up questions to what we discussed in our meeting.
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