BRAINWASH

mixed media, 34"h x 54"w x 15"d

Two wooden ironing boards, one on top of the tripod that supports it and one on the floor below the legs. Both surfaces have sentences engraved by pyrography. The upper board refers to an accusatory explanation for the failure of a relationship where the speaker, in this case a father, takes no blame. A definition of the word “shadow” appears on the surface of lower board that appropriately acts like a shadow to the first. “Father” who withholds the power to judge and condemn can “flatten” with words those close to him and reduce them into his imperfect copies.