Doos horende bij een zilveren penning 1890

This box, crafted by Georg Haas, once housed a silver medal. The box itself, though simple, echoes the importance of containers throughout history as vessels of symbolic meaning. Consider the Ark of the Covenant, an ancient symbol of divine presence and law, or even Pandora’s Box, a vessel of mythological consequence and unleashed chaos. This small box, like those, becomes a holder of memory. Its very form speaks to the human desire to preserve and protect objects of value and meaning. The box is worn, bearing marks of time. These marks are not mere blemishes, but traces of its history and journeys, much like the wrinkles on an aging face, carrying stories of use and the passage of time. This weathering process becomes a visual metaphor for endurance and transformation, resonating with our own human experiences of aging and remembering. These boxes take on meaning beyond their mere function. They engage our subconscious need to keep memory alive.