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2013-14
digital print, flashe paint

Digital photographs of contingent objects “selected” with white paint.

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    • Mobile GlobalMobile Global
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    • Bellagio Rockefeller DrawingsBellagio Rockefeller Drawings
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November 21, 2014 by jschiff@wesleyan.edu

2013-14
digital print, flashe paint

Digital photographs of contingent objects “selected” with white paint.

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