Traveling Stones

 

I have talked about my passion for stones before, including those featured in this interactive medicine cabinet installation. Now the medicine cabinet gallery has undergone a curatorial update and has expanded to become international in scope. Globe-trotting friends have scoured remote beaches and forests and brought back their prize funds to the gallery. Let the celebrations begin!

The medicine cabinet gallery

Upper shelves

Top shelf: domestic stones, chunks of tombstone from the Piedmont cemetery, and interesting little oddities found in the narrow crack between the sink and bathtub.

Second shelf: bottled emotions 

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Lower shelves

Third shelf: our new international gallery featuring (from left to right) stones from northern Portugal; stones from the Algarve on the Mediterranean; a vial of small white and black stones collected on the beach at Sifnos, Greece; latente stones from Gambia.

Globe-trotting stones

Fourth shelf: user instructions for the rock exchange and an assortment of locally collected stones.

And finally we have the exhibit reader panel, an article I wrote decades ago which served as the original inspiration for the gallery.

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Hopefully this visit to the updated Traveling Stones Gallery will inspire you to pick up a stone the next time you are out and about.