The work, titled Souvenir, or I Love the Portable Hawkers Museum explores the notion of the souvenir, as well as issues of museum display. It offers the viewer a constructed scene, reminiscent of tableau’s one finds in a natural history museum: a kind of ‘real life re-enactment’. This tableau is accompanied by a selection of post-card souvenirs of the portable museum [a series of five images, limited edition of 300, each is dated, numbered, signed and stamped with the official Hawkers Museum Stamp]. The images on the post- cards are documentations of the museum when it is open to the public, and together form a narrative that gives insight into how the museum operates outside the gallery context. These post-card souvenirs offer the viewer the ability to possess part of The Portable Hawkers Museum and, in mimicking the process of collecting, like all souvenirs, to add to their own ‘museums of experience.’
