Duchampian Sliding Screens Salesman Sample (or Moire Pattern Making Machine) hand-written text paper label

paper label

giving a great sense of immediacy to it as a memorial of sorts

which makes the orange pop all the more

plus "America"

The fabric bound cover was hand-done

Duchampian Sliding Screens Salesman Sample (or Moire Pattern Making Machine) hand-written text paper labelAnother example of a thing made for one purpose, but which, recontextualized, feels quite like an artwork, this one feeling very Duchampian to me, including for his ongoing interest in thresholds and portals (doors, windows, peepholes, glass, etc..) I believe it was made as a salesman sample for sliding screens, here with three screens, each with handles for sliding them in one direction or the other. They can all be slid, one by one, to one side or