The contemporary convenience store serves as a liminal space between public performance and private capitulation. A microdose of agency in an otherwise deterministic day. (Just nod if you agree).

This collection is a series of field notes from that space. It’s an anthropological study of the beautiful, disposable signifiers we use to construct a self. We’ve isolated the gesture, the casual grab, the quiet justification, and elevated it to the status of art. The result is a taxonomy of wants, rendered in leather and ceramic.

Consider it a peer reviewed argument for the thesis that aesthetics supersede ethics. Every single time. And honestly? We’re all better off for it.

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