British artist Lucy Sparrow recreates a 1990s American supermarket entirely in hand-sewn felt for ‘The Beginning of Convenience’ at The Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas — the town where Walmart was born. Every product on the shelves, from cereal boxes to canned goods, is stitched and painted by hand, turning the aisles of post-war consumer culture into a soft, saturated tableau. The installation traces how a single small-town dime store on Bentonville’s downtown square grew into the largest retailer in the world.
