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The Art of Mechanical Vending – How Vintage Memorabilia Turns Up The Nostalgia

For many of us now, thinking back to a time when things existed in simpler terms, seems almost archaic; however, pastimes have a way of creeping up on us. Yet, when we reflect of all our surroundings that motivate us to those nostalgia driven moments, we always arrive at what was simpler, maybe even more artistic, and something that strikes significance. This strikes us, particularly, with the vending machine, as a piece of art and not simply an autonomous unit of service. That being said, one deft American artist remarked:

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have" and that was Andy Warhol.

A vending machine in the Museum. This one is for Wrigley's Chewing Gum.

It is true that the vending machine has been a steady friend to our desires for a long time, and even more so it has been a mechanism for the delivery of something we never truly need, but that is what keeps us coming, that and the convenience of course.

It can be said that the art of mechanical vending is truly an ambiguous term. We simply may place the vending machine in the collection of things left better unsaid, such as dirty shoes, pocket change or candle wax--the various boring tangibility of our existence. Perhaps we are all correct in saying that vending itself is just a mechanism to deliver a product, and nothing more, but perhaps there is art in that.

Voltaire said:

"Prejudices are what fools use for reason"

And this may be true, because we have attached a certain stigma to the vending machine, as something to satisfy our convenience, and nothing more. But for that reason, we may overlook how the various backdrops of life have situated our environments, and created a landscape, filled with art.