Except As A Punishment For A Crime
2017
Plaster, Powdered Graphite
Dimensions Variable
Cast plaster of two competing versions of the 13th Amendment which obscure each other. The clause that allows current prison labor, Except As A Punishment For A Crime, is the only legible text. The powdered graphite marks the viewer as a metaphor for the unnoticed way this text has marked us.
2017
Plaster, Powdered Graphite
Dimensions Variable
Cast plaster of two competing versions of the 13th Amendment which obscure each other. The clause that allows current prison labor, Except As A Punishment For A Crime, is the only legible text. The powdered graphite marks the viewer as a metaphor for the unnoticed way this text has marked us.
