This house, done in the manner popularized by Samantha Browning in 2020, was in the window of an occult supplies store in Merced. I don't think it's an actual Browning piece, since it's solid black, but it's fun to see one of these projects in the wild.
Downtown Merced is stumbling toward a renaissance, gaining small shops aimed more at the university market (including a modernist tiki ironic sort of antique store that was selling NRFB Barbies). It's a tough claw up the ladder of decaying Central Valley towns, as UC Merced is sited way, way to the east of town, so students won't see downtown without a car. Young faculty presumably need somewhere to buy their harvest gold lounge chairs and vintage Libby tumblers, as well as their crystals and tarot cards. Modesto and Turlock (to the north) are not great for these things (the antique store vibe is more "wine country" for reasons I've tried and failed to fathom), and Fresno (to the south) has mostly lost its good antique stores.
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