The Telamon Cupboard began its life as a paper collage in the guise of a mirrored bathroom cabinet with an entrance turnstile adhered to its front and numerous other appendages dangling from its sides. The collage was nurtured, through drawing, to reinvent itself into a giant wooden cabinet of immense roundness, stability and gravitational force. Constructed as if it were a liberated kitchen appliance, it has finally come to terms with the mechanisms enclosed by the skin-tight panels that surround and imprison it. The Cupboard permits the appliance's pristine skin to be handled, yet it protects its mechanical workings. The ubiquitous inspection panel, or lid, exists in the form of forty sliding panels that are placed deep in its center. All of the workings of an appliance are reconstituted in the design of the Telamon Cupboard in order to expose the consumptive fallacy of the appliance. Instead the Telamon Cupboard accentuates those aspects of appliance lore that possess dignitas.

 Objects are stored in forty 9 by 9 inch boxes, 20 inches deep. Each box contains a sliding door. Attached to the door is a counterbalance which works the same way as a garage door. Instead of the doors rolling up inside the ceiling, the doors to the boxes rise directly through the base of the box above, thus doubly obscuring what lies behind. When half of the forty boxes have their doors lifted, the Kleptoman can only see half of his collection, whatever the permutation of the open doors happens to be. 

The construction of the Cupboard requires that its detailing directly confronts the way appliances are assembled. Every component is visible but its structural elements are intertwined with the non-structural elements. It is unclear which component performs what function in the Cupboard. This leads to an atmosphere of immanent inward collapse. To aid and abet the principle of immanent collapse, the Cupboard is assembled by layers of pegs that make it bulge at its edges. It is so full of contradictory tensions and compressions that it pulls and pushes itself into a complete stasis.

 Thought of as a place to store things, the Telamon Cupboard is quite conventional. When the doors to Cupboard's boxes drop down, there is no indication as to what is behind them. The Cupboard acts as a conventional cabinet in that it restores its outward appearance each time the doors are shut, giving no evidence of the fullness or bareness of the Cupboard's inner realm.