The work is part performance, and about far more than the small object we are giving away. It raises big thoughts and creates a dialog between people who do not necessarily think about art and people who think about it all the time, namely us. We work with concrete, clothesline, paper, wood and fabric. Through materials as well as through metaphors we explore the contrast between that which endures and that which degrades. We are not concerned with product to be cherished for eternity.
Memory is our chief product.
Influences Our influences include folk art, craft and third-world art, and the way that they are part of household life. We also were influenced by Duchamp, the dadaists and the concept of cheap art, all of which pokes fun at the ego-fueled art world. We think the artist and the art work are part and parcel of the culture, not above it. We subvert the fine-art traditions, using them to make monumental and visible what our society relegates to secondary status.