Magnesium Carbonate 

Editor: This is "Magnesium Carbonate," with no date, created by Wishnick Tumpeer Inc. It looks like a scientific sample. What strikes me is how ordinary it seems, yet it’s in a museum. What do you make of it? Curator: The piece is less about what it *is* and more about what it *represents*. The label "Magnesium Carbonate" functions almost like a medieval saint’s attribute. It signifies not just a chemical compound, but the entire history of artistic creation and preservation; doesn't the labeling itself evoke a certain sense of history? Editor: That’s a great point. So, it's a symbol for art itself? I'll never look at a label the same way. Curator: Precisely. The mundane can become profound when viewed through the lens of symbolic interpretation.