journal

Notes from the keeper, irregularly written.

FIELD NOTES

Three things that arrived this month

A pendulum cast in Toulouse in 1934. A glass sphere we are not allowed to photograph. A tarot deck whose maker we have lost contact with.

ON CARE

How to polish brass without erasing its years

Patina is memory. Treat it accordingly.

INTERVIEW

A conversation with the maker of the moonphase pendulum

She works in a single room above a stationer's shop, and only on Tuesdays.