This exhibition comprises several photogrammetry scans of cabinets found in situ within a small abandoned house in Llandeilo, Wales. Little is known of their maker, beyond her reputation as an eccentric hoarder and a possible connection to British campaigns in colonial Africa. The contents of the cabinets mostly date from the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, containing an assortment of graphically attractive ephemera: matchboxes, buttons, food labels, and brochures. A few cabinets adopt a more taxonomical precision, such as those containing wood-type letterforms or coat hooks, or, in one instance, ceramic and wooden figures arranged in a childlike scaenae frons. The items may derive from personal events, or may have been acquired simply for their allure. As such, the cabinets operate less as repositories of any particular meaning, functioning instead as dispositions of the unceasing act of collecting itself, wherein each object becomes an emblem of a sentiment too elusive to be contained.

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