POCKET MUSEUM
What do we forget to take out of our pockets when the season changes?
Pocket Museum is a collection of small things that survived a season without being resolved.
They were carried for warmth, for habit, for reassurance and then forgotten. Each object comes from the pocket of a winter coat, kept close to the body long after its purpose had shifted. Some belonged to versions of life that never continued, some to decisions we forget, some to feelings that simply changed shape. Main emotion is not loss, but just a feeling of what remains when time moves on quietly and nothing is formally closed.
01. Two stones
Not everything you think is rare actually is.
One of them was limestone, the kind that floats when thrown into water. When your boyfriend noticed that it didn’t sink, he was genuinely surprised. He showed it to you with excitement and gave it to you as a gift.
You used to find stones like that all the time when you were a child.
It didn’t feel that special to you.
But you didn’t show it.
You had found one too. Very smooth, reddish, glowing faintly like a tiger’s eye.
Later, while walking with your hands in the pockets of your coat, you kept turning the two stones against each other. Rubbing them together absentmindedly.
The limestone cracked.
You didn’t show that either.
02. Flyer that keeps you focused
Something you almost became.
An improvisational theatre workshop.
They were meeting at a small bar.
You and your friend said, “we should definitely go.”
It was written in the calendar.
It wasn’t even crossed out afterward.
You used the flyer to focus on what was being said while someone talked about a high school friend. A piece of paper -regardless of it’s size- can’t be folded more than seven times… “think out of the box.”
You didn’t go.
But that evening, for a brief moment,
you thought about who you might have become if you had.
03. Card not purposed for business
A future that never followed up.
“Make sure to send your CV, I’ll pass it on to Human Resources,” he said.
Did he say it to hit on you,
or because it could actually happen?
When you put the card in your pocket,
there was a small possibility inside you.
Time passed.
Your profession changed.
So did the possibility.
The card is still with you.
04. Couples which not match anymore
Proof that separation isn’t always violent. But sometimes they are. Depends on which side you choose.
How much you searched for the other half of this earring.
One evening, when you felt overwhelmed, you simply took it off your ear in the car. While trying to throw it into your bag, one of them fell to the ground.
You must have put that one into your pocket instead of your bag. It lost its way.
The other one darkened over time. Since it had no pair, it was thrown away.
This one, however, stayed protected in the softness of your pocket, still shining.
But it doesn’t have a pair either.
05. Receipt of expensive decisions
A promise made in fluorescent light.
The receipt of a large purchase made on the day you decided you would take care of your skin every day from now on.
It was a high amount for that day.
But you believed in yourself enough to make that investment.
The products are now on the bathroom shelf.
The edges of the boxes have yellowed.
Their expiration dates have passed.
You wonder what would have changed if you had followed through with this decision completely.
Would it have become a routine that made you love yourself?
Glass-like skin?
Or just the lightness of having kept a promise you made to yourself?
Not everything we lose is damaged.
Some things are simply left unmatched.
They do not match with the person you are right now, and we do not have to carry the weight of the person we were last winter.
Concept Development | Storytelling | Visual Direction
Sculpts, materials & 3D scenes: Nomad Sculpt
Digital Designs: Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop
Hand writings & textures: Procreate
