Before the Easter tutorial, we had been having two options regarding the choice of cube contents. One use fallen leaves, leaves and branches of natural plants as the contents, and the other uses fallen leaves, leaves and hand-crafted branches for coordination. But the artefacts of these two are obvious and still subtly incompatible with our representation (although artefacts also fit well with the notion of the origin of the artifact). After discussions with Chris, we still maintain the previous consensus that the content should retain a large degree of natural properties (striping away artificial traces), which means that the inner leaf should be compatible with a natural creation. Chris suggested that we find some saplings and plants as contents, which are small but very characteristic. We think this is valuable advice and should be easy to find. But once again we estimated the difficulty of acquisition.
This category of saplings or miniature plants that meet our requirements is not as popular in current gardening stores. At present, most of the gardening or plant stores sell various special-shaped garden plants with distinctive styles for decoration. Whether it is from leaves, branches, or rhizomes, it does not conform to the virtual form we made. After we asked different people, we still haven’t found the right plant, which may be one of the focuses of our next conversation with Chris.