2005
bamboo, river cane, burlap, coir, mahogany, steel, bottle caps
15 x 18 feet, diameter
Stuck on an island (like a cargo cult) we would worship the cargo of democracy. We send it over as a dumb bomb (BLU-82), fueling fear and apprehension.
2005
bamboo, river cane, burlap, coir, mahogany, steel, bottle caps
15 x 18 feet, diameter
Stuck on an island (like a cargo cult) we would worship the cargo of democracy. We send it over as a dumb bomb (BLU-82), fueling fear and apprehension.
2004
graphite and gouache on paper
15 x 10 1/4 inches
S.O.S. (Straight off the Street: Moment)
2004
video
A documentary conducted in the streets of the Bronx, of heartbeats and words instead of talking heads. All statements were directed to the President of the United States in 2004. In association with art:21.
2003
graphite, colored pencil on paper
22 x 18 inches
Persons unknown and under duress prompted this work. Rumors of suicide attempts at the Guantanamo prison for enemy combatants began this meditation. Based on William Dyce’s untitled study of Domenichino’s frescoes in the Monastery at Grotto Ferrata, Rome.
Image:
Chin, Mel (b. 1951) © Copyright. Guantanamo. 2003.
Pencil and colored pencil on paper 16 x 11 3/4″ (40.6 x 29.8 cm). The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Gift.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY
2003
electric stylus marks on Japanese paper
25 x 25 inches
The image, “burned” by the electrical arc of a sign maker’s pouncing tool, is inspired by a Gerald Weismann essay concerning Gertrude Stein. Her admitted disinterest in the A-bomb used on Japan, and her early history alongside her brother Leo collecting oceanic specimens at Woods Hole, MA, led to this combined morphology of the Atomic mushroom cloud over Hiroshima and the delicate internal structure of a ctenophore. A ctenophore is a sea creature also known as a combed jelly or Venus’s Girdle.