KRISTINE'S SWEET SHOPPE OF LIBERATION
Step right up to the most unusual candy store you've ever encountered! Behind the vintage charm and sweet facade of Kristine's Sweet Shoppe of Liberation lies 52 years of carefully curated chaos - shredded, sorted, and packaged for your revolutionary pleasure.
What's on the shelves? Delightful 3x3x3 acrylic cubes filled with "liberation blends" - shredded CD inserts from a collection lost 15 years ago, painted Yogurtland spoons from an eating disorder recovery journey, fragments of cut-up wigs, transparencies, and documents that no longer serve their original purpose. Each cube is a tiny time capsule of transformation, a confection of controlled destruction. The walls themselves become part of the installation - a POW of pattern and color that turns the space into a virtual candy store where memory, identity, and letting go are the main ingredients.
This isn't your grandmother's sweet shop (though she'd recognize the aesthetic). This is where Fluxus meets confectionery, where Piero Manzoni's spirit runs the register, and where buying a $20 cube makes you a collaborator in radical liberation. Each purchase doesn't just sweeten your collection - it actively participates in dismantling barriers, taking up space, and proving that what we destroy can become more precious than what we keep.
Come for the nostalgia. Stay for the revolution. Leave with a piece of freedom you can hold in your hands.
Brewery Artwalk
October 25-26 11-6pm PST