Fridge Art: Reclaimed Words on Reclaimed Wood
Each magnet is sawn from reclaimed antique wood, taken from Brooklyn watertowers, Coney Island boardwalks, and pickle and wine tanks, then combined with a 1″x1″ miniature photograph of words, cut and stenciled on blocks, that have faded from usage.
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Flaneur: One who discovered a city by walking
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macarism: to find joy in another’s happiness
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velleity: a mere wish, unaccompanied by an effort to obtain
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vicambulist: a person who wanders the city streets
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fey: having a strange, almost other-wordly, whimsical charm’
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Limerence: the first moments of love
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body modification through elective amputation
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frittle: temporary mark on the skin caused by the impression of a textured surface
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petrichor: the smell of rain on dry earth
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maieutic: to give birth to ideas
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Zolist: overly harsh critic
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repertitious: to stumble upon something of beauty by accident
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opposed to fun or festivites
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urt: a little leftover chunk of something
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musophobist: a deep and sustained fear of poetry
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exonomist: someone who collects things that look like coins but aren’t
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use of foul language to relieve stress or pain
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opsimath: someone who begins a new phase of learning late in life
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widdiful: someone you think is likely to die by hanging at some point in their life
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ploiter: to wake from a winter turpor
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ploiter: to work with little purpose or direction
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malist: one who thinks this a terrible world, but not the worst of all possible worlds
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prend: to mend a crack
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ingler: a recipient of anal sex
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someone who walks without shoes
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zizany: a bad apple that spoils the bunch
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unable to recall the word you want
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ruckle: the sudder of death
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rememble: a false memory
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amphigory: a poem that at first appears to be meaningful but on further examination is found to be nonsense
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holophrasis: a whole idea expressed in a single word
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tmesis: to break one word with another (e.g. un-flippin-believable)
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velleity: the wish to do something with out the strength to accomplish it
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Nugatory: of little or no consequence
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Nucha: nape of the neck
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Ergophobist: one who fear work
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Metanoia: to change one’s life or mind
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Mungo: one who finds beautiful things in trash
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Dulosis: the enslavement of ants by ants
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Stour: a conflict with death
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Kakistocracy: a government run by its worst citizens
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Zyzzya: last word in the OED
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Erethism: an unhealthy desire
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susurrus: soft murmuring or rustling sound
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eustress: Something that makes you both a little crazy and a little happy but a little more happy than crazy
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opsimath: someone who begins a new phase of learning late in life
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agastopia: admiration of a particular part of someone’s body
