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Reflection of Little Popcorn Store

Project
Letters on foil
Date placed
September 16, 2026
Place
  1. Little Popcorn Store
  2. Wheaton
  3. Illinois
  4. USA
Aluminum foil wrapped around a clipboard. On the aluminum foil is a handwritten letter with Sharpie. The letter says, "Wednesday, September 16, 2026. Lyle, This letter comes to you from the Little Popcorn Store!" On the letter is a handful of popcorn from the store in Wheaton, Illinois.
Clipboard wrapped in aluminum foil reflects the red storefront of Little Popcorn Store in Wheaton, Illinois.
View of table on plaza with two clipboards wrapped in aluminum foil, backpack, roll of aluminum foil (the word "Reynolds" is scratched out with "Art" handwritten next to it), white paper bag laying horizontally with popcorn spilled out over the clipboards. Taken in downtown Wheaton, IL
Two clipboards on a table. Each clipboard is wrapped with aluminum foil. The letter on the first clipboard says, "This letter comes to you from the Little Popcorn Store! Wow. It's really kinda hard to trace individual kernels of popcorn. (I should have put these on the left-hand side of the sheet, because now my hand is bumping into them!)" The second clipboard says, ""Popcorn lives a rather existential life. First, it's in a cornfield on an ear of corn. Then it's harvested by a giant machine. Plucked from the ear, it now lives a solitary life. But then it's dropped into a scalding hot bucket, and SUDDENLY it POPS, and now it's a popcorn kernel. One second corn, the next popcorn! It lives only briefly as popcorn, because who wants stale popcorn? (Funny how I'm writing this on aluminum foil, as that is often used to pop the popcorn)"
Kernels of popcorn sit on top of aluminum foil. An outline is drawn on the aluminum foil of each kernel.

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Lyle,

This letter comes to you from the Little Popcorn Store! Wow. It’s really kinda hard to trace individual kernels of popcorn. (I should have put these on the left-hand side of the sheet, because now my hand is bumping into them!)

(and now the popcorn is no longer reflecting in this foil. Only the outlines remain)

Popcorn lives a rather existential life. First, it’s in a cornfield on an ear of corn. Then it’s harvested by a giant machine. Plucked from the ear, it now lives a solitary life. But then it’s dropped into a scalding hot bucket, and SUDDENLY it POPS, and now it’s a popcorn kernel. One second corn, the next popcorn! It lives only briefly as popcorn, because who wants stale popcorn? (Funny how I’m writing this on aluminum foil, as that is often used to pop the popcorn)

(I didn’t even get to write about how the RED of their entrance reflects so nicely in this foil)

Shine on,
Matt

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