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Ant Farm: "Okinawa: Gibralter of the Pacific"

Artist/Creator
Date
1970, 1972, 1974-1975, Assembled 1977
ID #
M/T 123.14
Level of Description
Item

Object Description

Item is an Ant Farm assemblage mounted on conserva board (1977). There is a letter collage (1970) with the title "Okinawa: the Gibraltar of the Pacific", an image of a person in a three-wheeled chair, and an image of 5 people, lined up in front of a Cadillac with checkered shirts. The names of each of the people are noted in sharpie as "Hud, Doug, Curtis, Chip, Doug" from left to right. There is the verso of a letter captioned "The rise and fall of tail fin performed for Marcel Dot on 10/25/72", "Hudson", and "lots of opportunity here for squashed dogs" (1972). There are 2 Cadillac Ranch postcards (1974-75). Old number "5."

Physical Description

Physical Extent
1 assemblage of textual and graphic material : black and col. ink on paper, mounted ; 57.4 x 67.5 x 3 cm in frame
Material Type
Graphic material, Textual record

History

Collection
Morris/Trasov Archive
Credit Line
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