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Elizabeth Commandeur's and Mark Starmach's "Intangible Goods"

Pick up a "bar of purpose" or a "bag of spontaneity."Elizabeth Commandeur and Mark Starmach, Intangible Goods

Commandeur and Starmach's, Intangible Goods vending machine  is not your usual vending machine. Instead of unhealthy snacks, Intangible Goods provides people with healthy mindful alternatives that fuel the mind instead of the body. Each "mind snack" provided in the vending machine is color coded to provide its visitors with prompts, ideas, maps, pencils, etc. to help level up your emotional health based on how they are feeling that day.

Whaddaya need? Purpose? Reassurance?

I absolutely love this installation! I thoroughly love the idea that visitors leave better than they came. I love that this installation doesn't remain an installation but is used as a tool for exploration. This work, I believe is successful and a cool, interactive way of dealing with what we are feeling. 

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