Document

Document constructs a speculative archive around two objects from the Cuming Collection — a Gutskin Parka and a Venetian Glass Bead sample card. Through fabricated accession cards, condition reports, dealer correspondence, internal memos, and curatorial updates accumulated over each object's lifetime in the collection, the project explores how the act of documentation itself assigns worth and value to the things we choose to keep. The way a collection records an object shapes how it is understood, remembered, and cared for — and as those records change, so does the object's place in history. Rather than telling the objects' stories directly, it examines the systems that frame them, and asks what it really means to preserve something.