The Museum of Lost Childhood Beliefs

Here is a make-it-yourself museum complete with four galleries, featuring a theme that teeters on the brink between nostalgia and despair. What begins as a little book slowly unfolds...

Opening the museum

... and the result is a little museum that fits in the palm of your hand.

The fully-open museum

Each gallery in the museum celebrates a particular realm of cherished childhood beliefs — or serves as a bitter testimony to parental lies and betrayal, depending on how you look at it. A peek into the four galleries is offered below.

Wishing Gallery panels

Inside the Wishing Gallery

Fairy Gallery panels

Inside the Fairy Gallery

Boogeyman Gallery panels

Inside the Boogeyman Gallery

Gallery of Benevolent Beings panels

Inside the Benevolent Beings gallery

And for the ultimate interactive museum experience, you get to build a little Museum of Lost Childhood Beliefs yourself! Carry it around in your pocket and whip it out to amaze adults and utterly confuse anyone under ten years of age. Guaranteed to stimulate a lot of questions.

Templates for both a two-inch version (adorable because it fits in the palm of your hand) and a three-inch version (with larger images that make it easier to explore all the subtleties of the museum) can be found at the following link: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/stuffyoucanthave-downloads/0-aLO8pJnCw.

2-inch and 3-inch versions

Paper Bag Printing: Exhibits III and G

More experimental printing onto recycled paper bags. See the original post for background info. This time around, torn edges add to the intrigue. The "exhibit" stamps are from a bag of old stamps from a law court.

Close-up of Exhibit III

Close-up of Exhibit G

Paper Bag Printing: The Ball

A recent work printed onto a recycled Trader Joe's grocery bag.

Cut used paper bag into 8.5 x 11 sheets

Click on image to see larger version

Detail from "Live by the Ball"