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A stack of books can be a pedestal, and an ordinary possession can become an exhibit. On Jorge Lucero’s Museum of Us page, a Zoom workshop held with the Art Institute of Chicago invited people to tell stories through belongings such as tools, dishes, photographs, and toys. The resulting online cabinet of curiosities preserves screenshots of objects alongside the stories people shared about them.
The page also invites new contributions: a photograph of an object raised on a pedestal made from things at home, plus its title, a date of origin or acquisition, and a tagline naming its “collection.” One example is a rock a contributor kept after visiting Israel, whose meaning comes from the trip and the people they met. It is a way to look at what someone chooses to keep. As the archive grows, what kinds of stories will recur across its objects?
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