Paper voice of time - Photo-processing contest #28

I had a couple of certain ideas in my head for this contest week, but before pushing them into production, I decided to look at the others entries, and to be honest, I was surprised to see ... I didn’t see any matchings. Just some old stuff: an old telephone, a vintage bowl, or a sculpture from a museum. I have nothing against these interesting pictures, each of them tells an old story and "gives a smell of time", but... does it have smth to do with the still life genre? If I were a stern juri, I would disqualify these works as a lazy attitude, an attempt to secure something ready-made "from stock" instead of solving a tricky artistic prompt given.
Personally, I feel attracted by object photography, I like to make 'portraits of things', and in any case I feel the difference between a photo of an object - and a still life. Let's check what our good old friend - explanatory dictionary has to say about this.

And here is a more developed definition from the specialized art encyclopedia:

The key: "image of the things that surround us, usually placed in the domestic environment, compositionally organized into a single group". In case I will take a picture of a beautiful flower growing between a pile of rocks,-- it will not be qualified as a still life.

On this critical note, let's move on to my entry. Actually, I let the props I have in my posession take shape themselves into a meaningful postmodern composition. Old things certainly contain meaning, and each spectator will surely find his own.

A book, pen, watch, woman's bracelet, bureau key, yellow paper stained with paint - what will they tell you, what picture of a past life sunk in the sand of centuries they can present?..