The largest component of this sculptural readymade is a design object commonly used in American universities, museums, and other pedagogical spaces—the Rowland 40/4 chair, here in a red-orange color that closely resembles the Pantone swatch for Tangerine Tango, the company’s 2012 color of the year. The walls in the gallery were painted Tangerine Tango to create an immersive environment for the viewer. On the chair are “book snakes” used in library archives to hold open antique or fragile volumes, a piece of character goods for cosplay, a handful of cherry blossoms I preserved, and a copy of my book Drive It All Over Me. This long-form art history essay is both my own work and an extension of the 2021 artwork Bad Driver by the artist duo Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda.
This work debuted in my 2023 solo show in New York. In early 2024 it was included as part of the major thematic exhibition “CUTE” at Somerset House in London.