he objects classified as "Boxes" are works made from found, purchased or gifted lidded boxes--most often of wood, but some are made from cardboard or metal. 

They retain the quality of a box, because they contain the contents of the piece, while at the same time serve as an integral part of the piece's context. 

The final container, however acquired, is never used as it was found.  The original box can be altered in any number of ways: e.g. staining, glazing, distressing, painting, gilding, decorating or undecorating, etc. 

All of the glass vials and bottles, when included in a piece, are also never used as found.

The overall effect of the Boxes is to evoke some time in the past. With the many hidden clues in each piece, it is up to viewers to examine the work and use their imaginations to draw their own conclusions about each piece's provinence.  

Further, the works' obscure titles are meant to provoke the viewer's own conscious or subconscious ideas and feelings, as well as to inspire the viewer to spend a bit of time with each piece to discover or uncover the work's meaning(s). 

Most titles are derived from bits of texts that appear somewhere in the work, and often having no obvious relation to the piece, while some are quite literal or meant as puns.