Day 2. Found Objects
Skeleton keys and wine corks, birds, beetles, and bottles: all are on display in Joseph Cornell’s famous boxes. They’re found objects from the shop-lined streets of New York; he stored them in cardboard boxes with labels like “tinfoil” and “seashells” in the basement of his mother’s house in Queens.
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