This exhibition comprises several photogrammetry scans of cabinets left in situ within a small abandoned house in Llandeilo, Wales. Little is known of their maker, beyond her reputation as an eccentric collector and possibly with a connection to British campaigns in colonial Africa. The contents of the cabinets date from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries, mostly containing an assortment of graphically attractive mementos and fragments: matchboxes, buttons, food labels, and booklets. Other cabinets adopt a more taxonomical and organised precision, such as those containing wood-type letterforms or coat hooks, or, in one instance, ceramic and wooden miniatures arranged in a childlike scaenae frons. The items may pertain to personal experiences, or may have been acquired simply for their allure. As such, the cabinet operates less as a repository of any particular meaning, functioning instead as a sentiment of the act of collecting: while it encloses and preserves, each object becomes an emblem of a presence too elusive to contain.

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