What kind of art project? These might actually work. Just depends on how you look at it๐ณ
This woman is always working on something. It was going to be a collage. Below are some of what she has done in the past for local towns. Every year, Catskill has a display of decorated cats. Another town has bears, and there's a third one with another animal. She's working on three more animals now.
Looks like old computer memory that was in the early computers. Judging from the chips on the board looks like either 256 or 500 memory at a slow speed.