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Steel, Video and Monitors, Motor; 11’x9’x9’ – Etched Mirror Plaques, Enriched White Flour Statistics

Collaboration with E.G. Crichton. This site-specific installation juxtaposed Ben Franklin’s sayings with contemporary statistics. We placed our own historical plaques in Old Town, Philadelphia. Each one was etched with a partial Franklin aphorism. Below each plaque we stenciled an enriched white flour statistic consisting of a certain fact, stable for an hour or a week. We questioned whether statistics have become the anchor for today’s “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” philosophy that seems to ignore real social problems and needs.