BLOW AWAY STOWAWAYS

2009
Two actual household oscillating fans, cardboard, masking
tape, modeling paste, gesso, acrylic paint, tumbleweeds, sculpey
Dimensions variable

Two actual household fans are ‘covered’ with cardboard, tape, and molding paste and painted again to look like themselves. As each fan blows a tumbleweed towards the other, Blow Away Stowaways, creates a humorous visual representation, using an iconic thistle that is indigenous to Russia, of futile attempts to control and understand nature and our environment.