Locust Projects presents Lost Shaker of Salt, a newly commissioned installation by artists Patty Gone and Kelly Breez. Transforming the mythology of Margaritaville into a queer, anti-colonial shrine. A towering flip-flop greets visitors at the entrance, a monumental pair of cargo shorts houses a reading room, and a twelve-foot spilled margarita becomes an altar to Jimmy Buffett.

The exhibition dismantles the narrow dream of the “good life” sold by Margaritaville—a world of endless sunsets, tropical leisure, and carefree retirement—by exposing the social and historical contradictions beneath its cheerful imagery. Through humor and camp spectacle, Lost Shaker of Salt poses a pointed question: who gets to live in paradise, and who is left outside its gates?

Visitors who enter through the fly of the cargo shorts, will encounter the “James William Buffett Anticolonialist Memorial Library,” a collection of books examining the impacts of tourism and colonization across Latin America—forces that continue to shape Miami’s identity as a gateway to the tropics.