alchemy goods

On my way out from that bookstore, I saw her with a funky bag. I could not get my eyes of… the bag… Random encounter, how many times do you dare to ask? Who makes it? She said “A friend from Seattle, check www.alchemygoods.com; it is made of recycled advertisement banners…” I don’t think I can help it… But I like bags… as Steven Connor writes “If you were to arrive on this earth from another planet, what would be the thing that would strike you most about humans, compared with other species? […] It would be our need, apparently unshared by any other species, to carry things around with us.” And again, “We don’t seem to transport ourselves without transporting things with us. Bags mean this possibility. Bags mean ownership, identity, self-possession. They are memories, the weight of all we have been.” [1] What I like about this bag? It is urban, and as mentioned in the website “The material was printed on and then lashed to the sides of buildings all over Seattle to promote various products. No two bags are alike, so the only thing you’ll be advertising is your individuality.” After zipik, the Ad bag :)

[1] Steven Connor, Rough Magic: Bags, 2000 in Ben Highmore, Everyday Life Reader (Florence, KY, USA: Routledge, 2002); p. 346 and 348