Knolling photograph, shot perfectly straight down from directly above: the contents of a Korean school stationery shop haul laid out on a wooden desk in strict grid alignment, everything parallel or perpendicular and evenly spaced — pencils in a row sorted by length, three erasers, a sharpener, sticker sheets, a notebook, a plastic ruler, coloured pens fanned in order, small toy capsules, a few coins. Even shadowless light, obsessive alignment, nostalgic