Treasure Box by Tina Sanderson

The Treasure Box Project was an online participatory project organised by AccessArt in 2012. We compiled 50 boxes, full of a variety of found objects and materials, some second hand with a history, some new. The Treasure Boxes were available for purchase (all proceeds to the AccessArt charity) and bought by artists, teachers and parents. The aim: to transform the contents of your box into an artwork.

Explore Tina Sanderson’s Capsule of Time below.

When I received box 12 I was really excited, I didn’t open it for at least three weeks!

The items were colour coded and all very neat! The things that really caught my imagination were the couple of pages of information on bird eggs and the fabric. The egg represented recycle of time and the fabric of a past times.

One page featured the Jackdaw and the Maggie, the Jackdaw being a sociable bird and the Magpie being known to be a hoarder.

Box no.12 came together after working in a hospice; Like the jackdaw, it will become a social gathering, it becomes group of people sharing time and will share little pockets of memories would pop up some sad, some happy, we would have a laugh or a cry.

Then these special memories would be put away and we would carry on with the clay work.

Like the magpie we collect little items. This reminded me of the glass cabinets, wall units that use to be popular in most front rooms which would have small inexpensive items of treasured memories, that were only taken out on special occasions.

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