‘Freedom of Choice’ (from ‘Here and Now, Now and Then’)
by Peg Denney
‘Freedom of Choice’ speaks to the illusion of choice characteristic of consumer capitalism. In ‘Freedom of Choice’, abstracted, child-sized wooden picnic tables are neatly lined with placemats. The pastel-tinted placemats, printed with fragments of suburban tract- house layouts, suggest that the reality of limited choice applies to more than just our food options. The placemats hold identical snacks: squiggle topped cupcakes, a food icon, along with drinks in styrofoam cups and folded paper napkins. These items are cast in golden beeswax, luminous Nature forced […]
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