Cabinets de Curiosities (Wunderkammer)
Cabinets de Curiosities (Wunderkammer)
Effect of the Interesting
.A cabinet of wondrous curios
A delightful collection
Objects,
Carefully placed
Lying, seeming unconnected
Next to each other
Evoking,
Triggering memories
Permitting the mind to
Wander to faraway places
Microscopes,
Scales, microtomes,
Drafting tools,
Cameras,
Magic lanterns
Antique candle powered projectors
Fine laboratory glassware
Vintage beakers, funnels, test tubes, crucibles,
Dessicating jars
And a one-off hand blown, baroque piece carefully stored
A pair of rare wax anatomical models
Crutches and callipers,
Arm braces,
Blood pressure meters
And first aid dummies
Antique botanical prints
Woolly mammoth hair
Coprolites,
Spiny trilobites,
Skulls, fish and ammonites stored in labelled draws.
Butterflies mounted in Petri dishes
An Atlantis Moth
Obscure,
Whimsical and wonderful
Packets of seed,
Very old taxidermy birds, in excellent condition
Hand-made pills,
Patent medicines and toiletries.
The scent of human breast milk, swamp water and sex
Stored in tiny laboratory vials
All combine to fill
A purveyors
wonder chamber of
creative stimuli
Heather Blakey April 2005
What will your Cabinet de Curiosity look like?
posted by Heather Blakey @ 3:41 PM
3 comments
3 Comments:
Whoa! Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice. Is it just me or did something s*t*r*a*n*g*e happen between stanza two and stanza three? This reminds me of the basement of Old Main, which I used to haunt while waiting for my father. It was where the departments of Anthropology & Archeology stored their extra "stuff." Wow, did they have some cool "stuff." How do you suppose I got away with wandering through it constantly when I was a child?
I shall go to the shelf with the sea shell and listen until I hear the song, and watch for the sunrise, and recall the ancient one.
It is all very s*t*r*a*n*g*e if you ask me. I cannot begin to imagine why I was even lured into this place of scientific ephemera. The shift that began in stanza two became decidedly curious by stanza three
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