Antique German Bentwood Box with Floating Oil Lamp Wicks (Good for Making Wishes) found sculpture though perhaps more just a

though perhaps more just a showcase of skills

while it was the pips of the numbered cards that were transformed/incorporated into images

Or maybe it signaled both simultaneously

ink  and graphite on paper

retrieved from the archive of a shoemaker's workshop long since closed

Antique German Bentwood Box with Floating Oil Lamp Wicks (Good for Making Wishes) found sculpture though perhaps more just aI though this an especially nice one for the dawn of a new year, an antique box full of wishes of sorts, yet to be wished. There is a (partial) German paper label still adhered to the underside of the lid placing its making (or at least distribution) to Nuremberg, and then the word Mariposas, which in Spanish literally translates to "butterflies," an evocative descriptor for these tiny wicks held in wooden rounds, meant to be floated on lamp oil, and