souvemento stand {formerly curiosity shoppe}
social performance + installation
2010
A tribute to the poem We Alone,
by Alice Walker
The She-Merchant is currently displaying her souvementos* in a blown-out-of-proportion curio cabinet she stumbled upon while beachcombing one afternoon in the golden hour. She was forced to reimagine her curiosity shoppe after it was consumed by the sea in a severe storm.
She-Merchant has recreated a scaled-down version of her beloved wunderkammer and is liquidating the remaining inventory of her hand-fabricated wares that are free to visitors in trade for any thoughtful notion.
"This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce."
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* half souvenir / half memento mori