Occupational Display

Occupational Hazards or a Proposal for a Festive Seasonal Display

Date: 2012
Medium: mixed media
Dimensions: 20”x20”x42”, sculpture 36” tall

This sculpture consists of multiple tents fashioned out of translucent mesh, rice paper, and wire. There is one tent for every day of Occupy Wall Street’s occupation of Zuccotti park, which lasted from September 17th, 2011 until the early hours of November 15th. Having been a regular visitor and participant at the occupation and its associated actions from the third day of its existence and then watching it violently dismantled from a block away, held back by riot police, this sculpture was the result of a deeply personal meditation on the ways in which resistance is often packaged, commodified, and aestheticized.