Stevie General Store » brooch http://www.steviegeneralstore.com A Three-Star Restaurant with a Five-Star Wine List Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:31:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Issue of Encouragement http://www.steviegeneralstore.com/2010/09/12/the-issue-of-encouragement/ http://www.steviegeneralstore.com/2010/09/12/the-issue-of-encouragement/#comments Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:46:36 +0000 Bridget http://www.steviegeneralstore.com/?p=1395

We have good things in store, everything old. Did you see how beautiful the horn is? We’ve positioned it as part of a rack. (Sadly today I saw a man in the store give it a ‘museum look’, looking at it, head cocked to one side, wonderingly.) A reaction is better than none.

I’ve put it this way to share with you some interior ideas, for those of you home/room proud, or for those of you not ready to strangle us poacher-alibis… Before you jump, remember: the exotic is only exotic if time has had its way with it. Death is everywhere; rarity is more ugly than beautiful without age. I couldn’t be bothered about keeping a fresh kill for time to do its work — death is not only everywhere, it is anytime. Why kill-and-keep, for later?

This is our understanding, our reasoning.

p.s: the horn is amazing, and for sale.

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]]> http://www.steviegeneralstore.com/2010/09/12/the-issue-of-encouragement/feed/ 0 Old Thing http://www.steviegeneralstore.com/2010/01/21/old-thing/ http://www.steviegeneralstore.com/2010/01/21/old-thing/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:03:34 +0000 Bridget http://stevie.philomel-clothing.com/?p=357 I collect things old and seldom wonder who had them before I came along. I find myself thinking how the object, now in my hand, had once looked at people, and how that has changed when it looks at me today. I also find it amazing how we have discovered so much as mankind, yet remain still so far unable to express our most vivid feelings.

Do you like old things? I do.

Yet I have very few things that truly once belonged to me. Nature and other people’s trash and treasure have come to erect an adulthood in my clenched childhood.


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