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UNTITLED (WAX SHIRT INSTALLATION)
Men's shirts, wax, wood, metal; 1997
16" x 16" each, 99" x 79" overall
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Untitled (wax shirt installation)(1997), business shirts, wax and metal frame, 99" x 79"
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Untitled (wax shirt installation) is part of a series of works made with men's business clothing that was exhibited in 1998 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco. What seems at first exercises in the aesthetics of the men's clothing textiles, are projects that explore the concepts of male identity, conformity and individuality.
This concept of homogeny, or sameness, resulted in a grid of sculptures using menšs white business shirts. The shirts were folded and subjected to layers of hot beeswax, allowing just a portion of each shirt to remain visible. What emerged in the grouping of 25 seemingly identical folded, beeswax-laden shirts was an emphasis on variation. When all of the shirts are together, rather than seeming indistinguishable, the small differences between one and the next are defining.
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