About

Research tools and research finds.

Books, articles, quotes, images, concepts, theories and thoughts related to my research on collecting, taxonomy, classification, cabinets of curiosities, the history of natural history and surrealism. I created this blog to share and discuss curious chance finds, but it is also intended as a more informal and creative outlet for my research and a means of keeping myself motivated. Footnote-free space where serendipity, randomness and free associations reign supreme. I am currently four years into my PhD in Art History & Visual Studies at the University of Manchester, England.

Image above: Mark Dion, Ichthyosaur, 2003, detail.

Blog header image: Mark Dion, Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy, 2005, Manchester Museum, detail (box of discarded labels).

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