Finally, a place where my work might actually be appreciated . . .
A new museum just opened in Vancouver, British Columbia called the "Museum of Personal FAILURE." (???) It's a pop-up for now, not permanent. (So, fittingly . . . it's destined to fail.)
The person behind it is Eyvan Collins. (AY-vin) They came up with the idea after a recent break-up . . . so, a failed relationship . . . and put posters up around Vancouver with the headline, "Failures Wanted."
So, what's in the museum? Featured items include a dead plant . . . a divorced woman's wedding dress . . . failed art projects . . . an entire wall of rejected job applications . . . and a producer's album that never went anywhere.
Each one has a write-up next to it that explains the backstory.
One guy just wrote a long list of his biggest fails in life, and that made the cut. He told a reporter that having his list of failures accepted into the museum felt like "a success" in a weird way.
Eyvan says the point is to see "what constitutes failure to an individual, and what that looks like in material form." But it's also just a celebration of the fact that failure is okay. Everyone fails. It's the only way you learn and grow.
(Vancouver Is Awesome / UPI / CTV News)