A new collaboration introduces an additional layer to the experience of The Shop for Mortals and All Fools, extending its concerns with memory, narrative, and exchange into a tangible, material form.

In partnership with Emmaus SLC, a community working with people who have experienced homelessness, the project incorporates a curated selection of donated pieces into the fabric of the shop. Emmaus SLC operates through a model that goes beyond temporary accommodation. It provides stable homes alongside opportunities for meaningful work, shared responsibility, and long term personal development. Residents, known as companions, contribute to the running of the community, creating a structure built on mutual support and participation rather than dependency.

The pieces presented within the shop emerge from this wider ecosystem. Sourced through donation and redistribution, they carry traces of previous ownership, use, and circumstance. Their significance lies not in aesthetic or monetary value alone, but in their connection to lived experience. Marks of wear, shifts in context, and the accumulation of time become part of their meaning.

Positioned within the environment of the shop, these pieces operate at the intersection of object and narrative. They function as material remnants of interrupted and ongoing lives, reframed within an immersive context that foregrounds questions of authorship, continuity, and value. The act of acquisition becomes less about possession and more about participation in an extended trajectory.