Business Time

That time in the semester has begun. The time when I have no life, don't see daylight very often (no windows in the library) and am doing actual work. Which means I don't have much that's exciting to post here. I've got a couple things I want to write about but I have to get the images first, so that's holding me up.

Thesis is going well. It has become less about textiles and more about design history. I'm hoping the organization I'm writing about will help fill some of the gaps in the timeline and themes of the traditional story of polemic modernism. I think my window into the commercial side of design is something less discussed in the literature.

My boxes are going well too. We have been doing some investigation with blacklight, infrared photography, and microscopes to learn more about the fabrication and details of the boxes. I am going to work on genealogy of the names from the inscriptions, now that we have great IR images of them. Also, four more boxes are coming up for sale, two of which I will see on Monday.

And next week is the Delaware Antiques Show. I'm so excited to be there for setup, the preview party, and all the festivities. Hoping to get my network on.