So thinking about what I would like my box to be like, I would like the surface of the box to be made of something that when touched by the visitor they leave their impression on the box. It doesn’t necessarily have to be an impression that stays, but something where they have contributed to changing the exhibition.

Memory foam, when the visitor picks up the box and handles it, their handprint will be left on the surface. However it will slowly disappear so the box is forever changing.

Below is another way to create an impression on the box, in certain positions the handprint will stay, but if moved then the nails will move too, so again the surface of the box will always be changing and the visitor contributing.

I will try and think of other materials to use as the surface of the box, below are impressions on wet sand, another material that is easy to manipulate is clay, but both of these materials may have problems when in an environment that a lot of people are touching it.