A Spanish-language Digger poster announcing “Everything is free in the Diggers’ store,” likely made to invite the surrounding neighborhood into the Free Store experiment. Martin Carey’s dense black-and-white collage turns the Free Store into a visionary garden or altar of abundance, with flowers, moths, butterflies, frogs, eyes, and a saint-like central figure gathered into a field of metamorphosis. The poster is notable for translating the Digger idea of free into a language of beauty and wonder rather than ideology: the store appears not as a charity outlet, but as a magical commons where everything is available without money. |