The Museum of Extinct Things

Round 6
Image 1 — "Smartphone replaced" : 2.85
This is a catalogue, not a picture: a display case shot straight on, every object lit identically, nothing arranged to mean anything. A vitrine only becomes art when the arrangement argues something, and here the camcorder sits in the same neutral row as the calculator, so the eye scans across and finds no reason to stop.

Image 4 — "extinct tools of daily hard work" : 3.50
The best pure craft in the round: three tall murals breaking their own frames, harvest sunlight bleeding into a cold glass lobby, visitors made small by the work they no longer do. What holds it back is that it answers the title with the first thing anyone would think of, so all that lovely light is spent illustrating rather than discovering.

Image 2 — "The Last Attention Span" : 3.70
The sharpest idea by a distance: attention itself behind glass, dated 1990-2035, watched by two people who plainly still have none. The execution undercuts it, though. The hall is a uniform grey-brown and the case's inner panels dissolve into unreadable clutter, when a concept this good deserved one bright legible object at its centre instead of small print you must lean in to decode.

Image 3 — "Children street-games from the past" : 4.05
This one refuses to put the extinct thing in a case at all. It writes hopscotch rules on the museum wall like scripture, then lets the children break loose across the floor, mid-jump, mid-run, the rope still turning. The light is doing real work: that low gold flood turns an institutional atrium into something closer to a cathedral, and the parents watching from the left give the picture its ache, because they are the exhibit's last living witnesses. The vertical crop is earned, rising from the adults' stillness into the children's chaos and up into the glass. Best idea, best light, best feeling in the round. My winner.