#on objects

Here’s an end of the day treat for ya’ll!  Dick Tracy.  When was the last time this comic was in print in the papers?

I found this scrap being used in packaging and being a comic appreciator, I took it aside and imaged it.  Intending on cropping it for the tumblr post to edit out the field museum logos n such.  But looking at it, aesthetically it did a few things that struck me as thought provoking that I wanted to point it out.  As looking at an object goes, I think photographing and isolating does a lot to elevate the perception of an object.  In this case a historical object.  A comic: torn, weathered, Dick Tracy, print quality.  All of these qualities alone do a lot to sort of guide your mind into thinking about this thing.  And I thought that leaving the scale bar and having this Field Museum logo in the corners did a lot to steer my notions of the object in a different direction.  As if now it has something to do with Natural History.  And the Field Museum's authoritative ownership makes me think about ways it could pertain to natural history or Anthropology.  It ambiguously takes the role of a specimen and not an art history object or collectable.