I go looking at these kinds of objects when I am feeling unmoored because they help center me in a continuum of time, without making me feel voiceless or aggregate or disposable. Especially now, dealing with the conditions under which we see so much of our work gathered and trained on as data, which is then used to argue for the inessential nature of our field, or that our work could continue unpeopled.

But the hedgehog gestures at, instead… specific hands that made it, specific streets in which it was played with. The toy-making still recognizable as a practice all these millennia later. Legible through a changed world. Important because of its specificity.

"Basically they are a practical means to build structures or develop products that can change size and shape in order to have some structural benefit, a reason."

:o

toy 1 : missing link

fake pikachus gallery

a small flash game with a guy on a sled

Bible + Lego

wonderful photos by Caroll Planque

real life buildings looking like miniatures

Instructions For Making The Red-Heel Sock Monkey Toy

the toy piano band