"Cornell offers curiosity cabinets that beckon us to examine their strange functions and
contents, yet are enclosed and prohibit the engaged play that seems to define those very
objects. Throughout his work, Cornell evokes a reverie of childhood, yet there is also the denial
of the possibility of fully retrieving that moment of child's play. Metaphorically, the space and
time reverie seeks to recollect are sealed off from our experience -- these are constructions of
lost time and the losses of time." by James McCorkle from Joseph Cornell's exhibition.
People usually use a cabinet(or drawer....) to keep their stuff or valuable things. Sometimes they use the cabinet to hide somethings, and sometimes to protect somethings..... This could be a preserve of their time and memories related with that things, and I'm thinking about it's relations.
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There is a book called The Artificial Kingdom by Celeste Olalquiaga. In it, she discusses the human need to recapture the past by collecting objects. She also talks about how nostalgia for a connection with nature increased during Industrial Era when machines were employed to do work formerly done by human hands. The liked to keep relics and fossils of nature in cabinets, "frozen" in paperweights and began keeping aquariums and such to feel a sense of the natural world in their homes. Now people keep souveniers as a way of connecting them to monumental places and memories that occured in their past.
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