34 x 30"
Cotton fabric, metallic mesh fabric, tyvek, wire 'hardware cloth',
color pencil, ink, fabric paint
Appliqued, fused, pieced, printed. Machine quilted.
Shown on a black backdrop - not part of the artwork.
Walking in Washington, DC, the weekend before Bush's 2004 Inaugural, what struck me
were the chain link fences seemingly everywhere.
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The word in the cartoonish voice balloon, behind the fence and police line, is "Freedom".
The note reads: P.S. to DC, MD, VA -- We don't feel like reimbursing you for inaugural security anymore. Just take $17,000,000 out of your Homeland Security budgets. -- W
