"Holiday Weekend - Take it Out" 2005

Mixed media kinetic sculpture

69" high x 48" x 24"

[Photo: Etienne Frossard]

This whirligig was made while upstate New York on the Art Omi residency, and placed out on the roadside, along with another whirligig, "Holiday Weekend - Keep it Clean", for the 4th of July celebrations, when many decorate their front lawns with folksy items. They did get some strange looks from passing motorists.

This piece makes carnivalesque use of the unfortunate incidents of the mistaken shooting down of civilian aircraft by military forces.