Please check out SFMOMA’s blog Open Space for a recent interview about a piece I created for the exhibition John Baldessari: Class Assignments, (Optional) at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art.
There’s more to it than you might think :)
The source was in the center of a huddled mass of giggling persons eating something on a pedestal; upon closer inspection what was revealed was a half-eaten head of Osama Bin Laden—served with American-flag cake plates and red cocktail napkins with violet lettering spelling out “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”, along with a red-stained chef’s knife. Another disturbing factor was the gleeful smiles of people eating large slices while urging others to have some of Bin Laden’s symbolic head.
Read it all: SFMOMA | OPEN SPACE
