Rhode Island’s Largest Archive of Decision-Paralysis Relief Tools ™
~ Micro-dowsing since 2014 ~
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QUERI is an archive of novel decision making tools that may provide users with temporary decision-paralysis relief. Our collection—the largest of its kind in Rhode Island—began in 2014 and is maintained by Ben Sisto.
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The QUERI inventory contains around 170 objects, most of which are operational. While aesthetically adjacent to the tools of fortune-telling, paranormal study, lie detection, and astrology, our objects—with some exception—tend offer concrete answers.
The most basic implements—double-sided coins, marked stones, single dice, and sticks call back to the earliest days of cleromancy. More modern items use gravity, liquid-based dice agitation, and interaction with magnetic fields to simulate—or perhaps provide proof of—psychic activity. If it flips, rolls, spins, shakes, or beeps to offer guidance, we’ve got it.
Do you have a decision maker to donate? Drop us a line.
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QUERI events are fun, interactive, free to the public, and take a number of forms. If your bar, nightclub, school, gov’t office, witch house, or other org wants to host something, please reach out with some ideas and budget.
Past Events:QUERI Concert!
Miho Hatori (Live), Baby Baby (Live), DJ Robert Rhymin’
Myrtle, East Providence, Tuesday October 10, 2023
Ace Hotel, Brooklyn, New York on Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Dye House, Providence, Rhode Island from October 20–23, 2022
Online with University of Colorado, Boulder, Oct 27, 2022
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Answers should be viewed as fun, outside-the-box advice and are in no way intended to guide any individual’s specific behaviors. Any interaction with QUERI, or implementation of QUERI-generated advice in one’s actual life is done at the sole discretion of the client. QUERI is not responsible for any negative consequences. QUERI is however, fully responsible for all positive outcomes.
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“I don’t like the answer I got.”
You are free to ask again.
”None of this is real.”
With respect to the ontological status of objects in the QUERI archive, they do in fact exist. -
“We were worried about progressing an important project. The advice reassured us we were on the right track and we were able to move forward with confidence.”
— Victoria Hayward, Company, Place [company-place.co.uk]
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Magic 8 Balls. Coin flips. Why do we turn to objects to make decisions for us?, Josie Thaddeus-Johns, Boston Globe, July 2023 (Paywalled)
Find Your Fortune at the Dye House’s Queri Pop-Up Event, Dana Rae Laverty, Rhode Island Monthly, October 2022
Squarespace Project Spotlight, Circle Member Mailer, October 19, 2023
Below are some samples from the QUERI inventory—both objects and examples of packaging, ephemera, zines, etc. If you have a question about an object, please feel free to send us a note.
