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Wendy's, Burger King, and Hardee's Parking Lots' Wives
Sep 4, 2022
Wendy's, Burger King, and Hardee's Parking Lots' Wives
Sep 4, 2022

Salt packets, glue, pedestals (2021-2022).

Sep 4, 2022
Women of the 19th of September
Feb 27, 2022
Women of the 19th of September
Feb 27, 2022

“Women of the 19th of September,” sewing machine, salvaged pedestal, bandages, stage blood, acrylic, cotton and ash (2022).

Feb 27, 2022
Bigfoot Resurrects the Screens
Oct 16, 2021
Bigfoot Resurrects the Screens
Oct 16, 2021

Bigfoot Resurrects the Screens - mass produced bigfoot statue augmented with paint, coffee, cotton, ash, and homemade circuit-board with LED lights, broken or discarded digital screens and phones augmented with ink and marker drawings on vellum, paint, cotton and ash, found objects, and materials (2021).

Oct 16, 2021
Burger King Parking Lot's Wife
Oct 16, 2021
Burger King Parking Lot's Wife
Oct 16, 2021

“Burger King Parking Lot’s Wife” - salvaged pedestal, salt packets, glue (2021)

Oct 16, 2021
Monuments for Essential Workers
Apr 30, 2021
Monuments for Essential Workers
Apr 30, 2021

Monuments for Essential Workers - traffic cones, hard hats, cheese cloth, gauze, plaster, and work/drop lights (April 2021).

Apr 30, 2021
It's Always October 2nd Someplace
Apr 14, 2021
It's Always October 2nd Someplace
Apr 14, 2021

It's Always October 2nd Someplace - chairs and desks, books, fake-blood (April 2021)

Apr 14, 2021
Apocalypse Rink
Mar 15, 2021
Apocalypse Rink
Mar 15, 2021

Apocalypse Rink - door, basketball hoop, paint, ink, cotton and ash, office mat, Soviet toy rocket, stool (March 2021).

Mar 15, 2021
Cicero's Pawns Pwn Cicero
Mar 10, 2021
Cicero's Pawns Pwn Cicero
Mar 10, 2021

Cicero's Pawns Pwn Cicero - pawns, gaming table, plaster, drawings, vellum and mixed-media (March 2021).

Mar 10, 2021
Opossum Box
Sep 15, 2020
Opossum Box
Sep 15, 2020

Opossum Box - The first artifact of the Born Again Labor Museum (BALM) was a reliquary containing the bones of an opossum infused with the spirit of an unknown victim of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire; victim 147. The bones were stolen during a 1968 BALM exhibition in Toledo, Ohio. They were recovered in September 2020 by Tish Markley and Adam Turl. Upon receiving the bones, Markley and Turl found they were covered in writing. Moreover, the bones kept screaming in pain. After several healing techniques were tried -- such as coupling the bones with wounded tools or post-industrial healing debris, or wrapping them in poetry -- they found that suspending the bones in a coal miner’s canary cage helped alleviate their suffering.

Sep 15, 2020
Plague Angel/Toilet Paper with Wings
Mar 25, 2020
Plague Angel/Toilet Paper with Wings
Mar 25, 2020

Toilet paper, costume wings, thread (2020).

Mar 25, 2020

 


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