Worn away: licked lead and traces of human action
The little boy's ingestion of lead paint could be said to represent the avid consumption of American car culture in a very literal sense.
Attraction to children of the colour red
The attraction to the child lies partly - to me - in the singularity of the colour of the car seats.
A sonnet for the Boy, the Car and the Curator
An old and painted convertible car
Displayed in a magical autobus
Who would think the car would get this far
Causing karaoke and lots of buzz
Eating chalk (geophagy)
I have a strong personal recollection of the desire to consume chalk. This desire affected me in primary school, roughly from the age of 7 to 11.
Licking
During the course of my undergraduate degree in General Archaeology, myself and a few of my friends from my class had a three year-long competition to see what the weirdest archaeological object an