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'What color is your trash, babycakes?'

'What color is your trash, babycakes?'

Jean Brennan

October 25 – November 26

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Opening Reception: Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Artist’s Gallery Talk: 6:30

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Artist, Jean Brennan, along with her husband and two children, conduct an investigation of their material -- and highly disposable -- world. As a mock anthropological study, each discarded artifact was photographed and tagged with its respective date, material, weight, user, function and color and uploaded daily to an online archive. The live feed ran for 10 months resulting in a unique family portrait narrative.

'What color is your trash, babycakes?' interrogates the emotional resonance of the things that surround us. It attempts to weigh the unquantifiable color value of excess in our lives. The presentation of the work at Center for the Digital Arts includes a video projection, the digital archive and image walls sampling the 1,080 images created during the project. 

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