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STATUS Physical work destroyed, no longer extant. Recorded 2026-09-18 on the instruction of Sky, PAPA: the artist's studio and home were destroyed in Israeli airstrikes and no physical work in this collection is known to survive. This record documents a work that no longer exists. SURVIVING RECORD One digital image, 636 x 651 px, 90 KB JPEG. Low. Adequate for screen thumbnails only, and insufficient for study of a welded object where the joins and the salvaged components are the substance of the work. DIGITAL PRESERVATION Priority recovery. Ask the artist for original camera files and any additional views, particularly of the interior, which the artist's biography describes as empty and central to the work's argument. Store an uncompressed master with a checksum and a copy outside the Content Lake. MATERIAL RECORD Scrap iron, 50 x 70 cm. Materials recorded 2026-09-18 on the instruction of Sky, PAPA: the work was built from Israeli munitions shell casings. This is provenance of the material itself and belongs in any account of the work. The artist's biography describes the piece as an empty iron suitcase about the weight young people carry when they emigrate. The object was made from the ordnance fired at the people it is about, and was subsequently destroyed by the same means. OUTSTANDING 1. Better images, including interior views. 2. Whether the specific munitions type or origin was known to the artist, which would strengthen the material record. 3. This is one of only two records in this collection with no draft version. Edits here stage against the published document. 4. The description ends mid-sentence, with an unclosed quotation mark. The closing text is missing. Not altered.

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