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Museum of Everyday Alchemy

What is gained and lost in processes of acculturation, appropriation, assimilation, and hybridization?

Portland, OR

Artist Lynn Yarne created objects to explore: What is gained and lost in processes of acculturation, appropriation, assimilation, and hybridization?

The Museum of Everyday Alchemy suggests visual hybridization as a process of meaning making and representation, pulling from mixed metaphor and iconography, stories your auntie’s friend told you, traditions you don’t know where they came from, making it up as you go along and doing with what you have. The objects were made with scrap and discarded materials.