Wood, wire, rice paper, chiffon, paint, ribbon
42″ x 20″ x 20″
Wood, wire, rice paper, chiffon, paint, ribbon
Detail
Occupational Hazards or a Proposal for a Festive Seasonal Display
This sculpture consists of multiple tents fashioned out of translucent mesh, rice paper, and wire. There is one tent for every day of Occupy Wall Street’s occupation of Zuccotti park, which lasted from September 17th, 2011 until the early hours of November 15th. I’d been been a regular visitor and participant at OWS Zuccotti and its associated actions from the third day of its existence. It was violently dismantled as I watched from a block away, held back by riot cops. This sculpture was the result of a deeply personal meditation on the ways in which resistance is often packaged, commodified, and aestheticized.