How can objects be a documentation of an economic environment? And what happens to them when they are excluded from it?
Pat and Ksenia are exploring the afterlife of mass-produced collectibles - Snoopy toys from 1999 McDonald's Happy Meals. Distributed globally, they attracted collectors who believed in their future value. Today, after 25 years, these once-coveted Snoopy toys are abandoned and sold at much cheaper prices in illegal flea markets, car boot sales, and via online marketplaces for second-hand goods.
In this small, but growing online archive Pat and Ksenia collect these 1999 toys from sellers in Hong Kong, the UK, and Russia, attempting to get a glimpse of the intertwining personal and economic histories around these objects. This archive uses the imperfections of 3d scanning and drawing to highlight the patchy, changing, irregular, disappearing stories behind these objects and their economic environments.