Presentation ideas

I just bought the jewellery box on trademe, unsure if i will use it but i want to try out a few of the ideas that have been buzzing around in my head. The table above is a PRIME! it transforms into a sewing machine desk thing which is highly appropriate, dont know how much it will sell for but it would be nice to have my work on. I want my display to be wooden, yellowy, comfy looking yet antiquey... get me? Imagine my desk when i'm 80 years old and that is what my exhibition will look like, a personal work space that has a museum feel because its all fragile and old but still looks inviting to touch and personal. yeah. I'm going to study english next year.


Cool little magnifying glass^^ i am enjoying the little edward clippy hands on either side of it which will be prime for holding on to little hairy things. yaaaaayges ago i considered making lots of little objects and displaying them in a 'shadow box' like the one above. Granny Cush has one with all sorts of things in it like porcelain figurines, plastic and tin toys, mercury in a little bottle (my favourite), china shoes, lots of little oddities. I think her little shelves were formerly used to house printing blocks?? anyway they're way cooler than that one^

I have been trawling the internet trying to find magnifying glasses and lenses to present my works underneath. I'm yet to even really think about the lighting which will be a bitch.
I've found a lot of things that i think would suit my works for presenting them in or on top of, little wooden jewellery boxes, old library card catalogues, desks, etc. I really want a sort of museum aesthetic, but not so removed from the audience. The above video is a nice way of viewing the crafted object, travelling through the hair tunnel to get to it. I want the audience to get that feeling of abjection and the messy hair tunnel does this, leading to the fascinating obsessive object that is the crafted hair. The microscopic view moving around and through the object is very visceral, the circular framing of the tunnel is like Mona Hatoum's 'corps etranger', somehow more bodily... like wee hole. holey hole hole.