I’ve had a busy month with one thing and another, so here is a little update from my trip to The Hague – a short work of fiction inspired by a shop we found in Amsterdam’s Nine Streets, which discouraged people from coming in by posting a sign outside which read “Just looking? Then visit a museum.” All well and good if you could see what was inside, but the window display obscured the interior completely. And that got us thinking about the idea of a shop where you couldn’t see anything until after you had paid for it…
Tom Poes’ World Famous Travelling Haphazard Bazaar
Along with my colleague and fellow adventurer Tim Godwin, we are now planning to turn the story into a performance piece with a real live shop where you don’t see the goods until they are paid for (and no refunds). And then another trip sometime. And here’s the philosophy behind the adventure, on Tim’s website which I had a hand in getting designing.