Gottsunda Shopping Center is a meeting place for immigrant families. As soon as I have spread out my found objects on the floor in front of me and start making so-called lucky charms, I am surrounded by children. Together with their mothers, we create colorful objects from the found and leftover materials that have no other use than an ideological value. We walk through the shopping center together and hand out the objects we have created to visitors. We sometimes experience rejection (especially from locals), but also, and especially from migrant family members, grateful acceptance of the hand-made "lucky charms", and even older people who are moved to tears as they express their gratitude for the gift.
 
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I invade the territory of these people and though the various encounters with them I  experience how strangers feel when they come into a new environment and want to contribute themselves, in a way that is unfamiliar to the local residents. All these absurd handicrafts are a means of establishing contact and trust and leaving traces of this encounter in the life of the people.
The children's keen interest builds a bridge to the hearts of the random visitors and seems to reach the migrants more easily than the reserved locals. Their distrust of the "stranger" is greater than their curiosity, whereas the migrants' trust can be won by the children who come from their own environment.