Photograph the object, tell it the story, and it stages the thing like an exhibit — velvet, glass case, proper placard. My mother's thimble has never looked so important. Because it is.
Stage the object in this photo as a museum exhibit, complete with its label.
The story: [what the object is, whose it was, roughly when, and the one-line story that makes it matter — e.g. "carried through two countries sewn into a coat lining"]
The exhibit:
- The EXACT object f
