and cameras, and records, and other things that hold reservoirs of emotion for people who make art. Paint, pencils, a dressmaker's mannequin, books, a wooden model of a person, a not-yet-dry clay bust, a video game cabinet. Everything is flattened under its power.
The author lists the items that are destroyed in the ad which are all important tools to people that use them as they're expression of art or their job.