Key Questions

* What temporalities does this object carry? 
Let’s think about the markers of time in the object: the materials, labors, contexts in which it was made, as well as its previous life.

Something important which I do not mention in the video is that, entangled with its materiality and temporality, the object carries cultural values from what it represents. This includes a racialized, gendered and classed aesthetic, which I hint at when talking about it as a colonial artifact. When these dolls came out in the 50’s and 60’s, they were aimed at  white upper middle class US American girls (those may have been the original ‘owners’ of the doll after it left the Japanese Mattel factories where they it had been mass molded and hand painted). Much of the appeal of these dolls as objects of value in current doll markets is still attached to those aspirations toward middle-class-American-whiteness and melancholia about “the good old days”. Additionally, the lower mass production capacity of doll makers (and the smaller market) makes them “rarer”, although that fiction of rarity does not solely sustain their valuation by doll collectors and resellers. 
* How  are the object’s materialities and temporalities  connected to your own labor and time-use?
The materialities and histories of the object may influence aspects of your labor, including the ways you will present it online or at the market, the repairs/cleaning it could need, the time you will hold it in your possession.

The price of the doll is heavily mediated by eBay, the main marketplace for these collectibles. When selling it, I would need to loo at ‘comps’ on eBay since it’s still a mass-produced and highly standardized object. I would hae to spend extra time searching for dolls with ‘imperfections’ to match the price. This kind of labor is hard to automate, even with tools like Terapeak it would require some ‘comp digging’. 
* How are the objects temporalities and materialities connected to your  labor’s wellbeing?
Something made you pick this object: its cultural capital, style, durability, etc. In the case of the doll, the labor of restauration provides me with occupational and even physical wellbeing.