The Last Memory Coin cabinet —

The Last Memory

Coin cabinet — Charles Percier, Paris, ca. 1809–19

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/195473

The Last Memory reimagines Charles Percier's Coin cabinet as an archive of human memory. Instead of preserving coins and medals, its drawers preserve fleeting fragments of human life. Most compartments have gone dark, leaving only a few fragile memories behind. I kept the cabinet grounded in the visual language of a real museum artifact and introduced one impossible idea: what if memory itself could be physically preserved?