About Us
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The Curio Society seeks to connect with others who are familiar with that indescribable, ineffable love for inanimate objects {e.g. dried octopuses, ceramic teeth, old b/w pictures, old cracked dolls, odd-shaped shells, and the like}, and who are fascinated with eye-popping oddities of the world.
This is not your mother’s menagerie of ceramic pastel angels we are interested in {perhaps your great-grandmother’s if they’re creepy enough}. We are excited about the Queer, the Strange and the Decrepit; the old and the discarded; the objet trouve, the odd junk shop thingamabob covered in mold and the pig with three heads. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, please observe the inspriational artwork of Joseph Cornell or the Brothers Quay. Maybe you’ll be inspired and your life will change completely! Or read through the posts below which are comprised of a collection of articles and videos found around the web about people, places and things that are, but for the internet, normally hidden from our view. The bulk of them will make you start to believe that faerie tales and horror stories could be real, and will invigorate your interest in the parts of society that you’ve never explored or even thought about. {Who is this strange man, you ask? Why, he’s our patron saint, Joseph Cornell!} |
