| d40 | Result | Description |
|---|---|---|
1 |
"Resolve: {Flying Angels of the Union|Celestials Flying Over The Republic}" (Only a passing resemblance to "Winged Figures of the Republic" by Oskar J.W. Hansen c. 1936) |
Two large, 30 foot tall bronze statues stand on massive black stone blocks; keeping sentinel. Depicting muscular, winged figures with raised arms, symbolizing strength and readiness, the statues are poised for flight. At thier feet, an intricate and mysterious terrazzo design at the base, charting a 26000 year stellar precession of night sky. |
2 |
"Inverted Tank and Treadmill" (This is totally original, we think Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla 2011, got thier idea from Us!) |
A decomissioned American Abrams Tank is upside down and has an athletic treadmill attached to the top of one of the treads. |
3 |
"Resolve: {Banana for Scale|Yes! We Have No Bananas}" |
A towering, hyper-realistic banana peel, frozen mid-curl, looms over passersby with an almost comical sense of precariousness. Its smooth, glossy surface reflects light like waxed fruit, amplifying its surreal scale. Up close, the exaggerated texture and color make it feel both absurdly familiar and strangely monumental, as if a piece of everyday life had been plucked from reality and enlarged beyond reason. |
4 |
"Shattered Horizon" (Only a little bit like "Cloud City" Tomás Saraceno 2002-2012) |
A cluster of mirror finished geometric modules and a network of kilometers of suspension cables, hovers above the ground, reflecting and fragmenting the surrounding world into a kaleidoscope of shifting perspectives. The interconnected shapes resemble a futuristic floating city, their surfaces catching the sky and people below in a constantly changing dance of light. Walking beneath or within it feels like stepping into a prism, where reality is multiplied and distorted in every direction. |
5 |
"Resolve: {Road|Vertical City|Othogonal to Expectations}" |
Walls have been built to resemble roads in extreme detail. There are fire hydrants, small landscaping, pedestrian crossings, and actual automobiles mounted. |
6 |
"Resolve: {Life|The Turrlet|Eu de Toilet|}" |
It's a lifelike porcelain toilet but scaled up such that it is 10 feet tall and placed on a rotating mechanism so it spins slowly 360 degrees. A water feature is installed that sprays water up and out of it several feet high, turning it into a fountain. |
7 |
"Digital Forest" |
Tall rods are installed in a random pattern here, and attached to the rods are a collection of antennae reminiscent of the branches of trees. The branches also have plastic bits attached that illuminate stochastically, resembling leaves. In visible but slightly out of the way places are closed circuit tv cameras, positioned as if they were wildlife living in the forest and watching the interloping humans. |
8 |
"Steel Life" |
A print of still life of grapes, fruits, and flowers arranged on a tabletop in front of a dark background fill the field of this hand-hammered stainless steel pointilist work. The image is monochromatic like a black and white photograph but is stamped into the series of six, 20 foot tall stainless steel panels with thermal coloring printed in warm tones of golden orange and purple dark browns. Up close, the image is comprised of small divots that have been hand-hammered to create a texture and heated to create color. Only when viewed from a distance, is the image apparent. |
9 |
"Generic Portraits of Little Significance" |
A dense array of 30 foot tall by 60 wide Cor-ten (rusty) panels that have been artfully cut and layered in sich a way that when viewed through at the right angle and distance, creates the illusion of a 3D image of a famous political leader. |
10 |
"Resolve: {Abyss|The Deep|If This Boat Be a-Rockin'...|The Lantern|Swim, Forrest}" |
Someone took a wood-hulled professional shrimp-boat, painted it to look like it was straight out of the film "Forrest Gump" gave it a distressed finish and attached a few polished bronze plates to the sides of it, turned the boat upside down and at an angle, and turned it into the rising, gaping maw of an Abyssal Lantern Fish. The plates looks like fins or scales or teeth or fish-eyes. A bent brass fishing pole holds up the bio-luminescent lantern. Around the boat-slash-fish, various nets and bent pipes evoke both sea-weed and playground equipment, and it seems like people are encouraged to play on it. |
11 |
"Baby Dog" (No, We Didn't Kill Jeff Koons's "Puppy", 1992) |
Massive Terrier covered in plants and blooms; a combination of steel framework anchored in concrete, a network of watering pipes, and geotextile fabric, and actual living flowers which perpetually grow on the outside. |
12 |
"Big Giant Heads" |
This work comprises several ten foot high human head replicas of somewhat famous celebrities in painted fiberglass suspended several feet off the ground. Small platforms beneath the heads encourage viewers to go inside the head, where small screens, speakers, and scented vaporizers randomly play snippets of a "day in the life" of the celebrity, as captured by head height cameras and microphones. |
13 |
"Lemon P-Ledge" |
This work appears to be a ten foot high by 30 foot long wall, with a six foot high capital letter "P" made from Lemon yellow fiberglass precariously leaning over the "ledge" formed by the wall. |
14 |
"Fish Ladder" |
This work is what appears to be a common everyday extension ladder modified to be part of a bronze water feature with a waterfall. Upon the ladder is a school of legged half-human, half fish people climbing up the waterfall. |
15 |
"Agora-philia" (Let me List the Ways this is Not Like Magdalena Abakonwicz's "Agora" 2006) |
Several hundred 9 foot tall, headless bronze figures posed as if walking in multiple directions or standing still, frozen in time. Footprints carved into the concrete and stone base of the work seem to invite the viewer to place themselves within the artwork. |
16 |
"The Real Probability of Cessation of Life as Witnessed by Someone On Death's Door" (Totally Different from Damien Hirst's 1991 artwork, "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living") |
14-foot tiger shark suspended in formaldehyde inside a glass tank. |
17 |
"Resolve: {Grok|Enlightenment|Comprehension|Inspiration}" (No No It's Different, For Sure. Martin Creed, "Understanding", 2016) |
Giant magenta 7-meter high neon lights spell out the title of this peice. |
18 |
"Pappan" (Legally Distinct IP from "Maman", Louise Bourgeois 1999) |
It's a GIANT metal Daddy Long Legs type spider thing.. sculpture that totally isn't creepy and going to haunt you at night. It is the size of a house. |
19 |
"100 Animatronic Mannequins Silently Judge Passersby" |
Arranged in a loose semicircle about the space, they slowly move between poses throughout the day, and pose as if judging those they see. |
20 |
"Resolve: {It's Never Lupus|McMansion|Domicile}" (Ok, We Admit It looks Just Like "House", Rachel Whiteread, 1992, But We Have a Good Excuse) |
A full-size concrete casting of a terrace house slated for demolition, resembling something that was encased by the volcanic ash of Pompeii. |
21 |
"Wisp Turnstile" aka "The Shiney Legume" (We Left the Proof this Isn't IP-Theft of "Cloud Gate" aka Chicago's "The Bean" by Anish Kapoor, 2004, In the Pockets of Our Other Pants, Promise!) |
It's a giant legume shaped shiny mirror finish stainless steel monument that weighs 110 Tons. |
22 |
"Six Concrete Bollards Outside the Front Entrance" |
This monumental work resembles the front entry atrium of a building, outside of which on the sidewalk are six large concrete bollards designed to prevent vehicles from driving inside the building. This is totally an art peice, we promise... |
23 |
"Pitcher of Sickness" (Totally Legally Distinct from Guadalupe Maravilla’s “Disease Thrower” series) |
Aluminum structures; two large gongs, healing sound bath ceremonies. Live, planted Garden Vegetables key to Mesoamerican communities (corn, squash, & beans, as well as fruits). Enigmatic symbols and a medicinal garden envelop the shrines, surrounded by metal cables that resemble large twisted strands of barbed wire. |
24 |
"Fit Check" (Definitely not an IP Violation of Kehinde Wiley, "A Portrait of a Young Gentleman", 2021) |
Two Portaits, placed several feet apart upon black granite monoliths, but facing each other, clearly the same installation. The first, a boldly painted young man in a modern, Pop Art style, in vibrant streetwear; possibly the founder or some other important person or family member of such, in front of a patterned background. Opposite the first, as if both the subject and the other are admiring peers, is a reproduction or homage to Thomas Gainsborough’s 18th-century painting "Blue Boy", featuring a blushing young man in Blue Satin Silk 1700s Roccoco style outfit and ribboned shoes, the boy’s impeccable outfit telegraphs his privileged status—heir to a fortune. |
25 |
"The Orb" |
A suspended, glowing red orb the color of a blood red sunset, nestled in a floor to ceiling latticework of bamboo scaffolding. The scaffolding surrounds the Orb like a nest. |
26 |
"Remember Chicxulub" |
It seems to be a memorial of the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs? A small patch of Cracked, Mud Baked Soil covered in what looks like gray ash, and a small stand of scorched Trees growing thru a plaster skeleton of what looks to be a dinosaur. Hidden speakers play the sound of wind. |
27 |
"Pursuit Bank Video Tensor" (Totally not a rip-off of Nam June Paik's The Chase Video Matrix (1992)) |
The installation features many hundreds of CRT television sets that play live and programmed videos. The screens form an entire wall Resolve: {that spirals into a circular center|that has several 90 degree bends in it to form a small labyrinth|that spreads from corner to corner of the area it is installed in}. |
28 |
"Without Title" (1000% Legally Distinct from Sam Francis's , "Untitled", 1968 -1969) |
Abstract Expressionism in a vast area of central white gesso with thin bands of color on the sides and bottom. The white frames emptiness with sharp edges of color. |
29 |
"Pine Tree Scarf" |
Almost life-size ink-wash paintings of a view of Japanese pine trees in the mist, with parts of the trees visible and parts obscured. The ink-wash paintings are mounted on silk and canvas panels that are thirty feet high, suspended from the ceiling by nearly invisible cables. The panels slowly actuate, as if they were on a scarf blowing in the wind in slow motion. The work most resembles the "Pine Trees" screen by Japanese Artist Hasegawa Tōhaku circa 1595. |
30 |
"Large Newish Order" (Merely Inspired by and in Homage to Gordon Cheung's "EJ Eelkema II (Small New Order)", 2015) |
An entire 30 foot wall mural is transformed by a beige-ish blue and green still-life of some dried leaves and flowers. A portion of the work appears to have been "pixel sorted" to "non-destructively reorder pixels of photographs", leaving behind the "pixels" of the mural sorted in order of hue and brightness, as if the paint-work were bleeding or smeared. |
31 |
"Resolve: {We Promise This Isn't a Rip-off|Severing|Division}" (Absolutely not an IP Violation of Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Splitting” 1974) |
A monumental work, it is an entire house, dilapidated, seemingly vacant, and apparently ready to be torn down. Notably, there is a cleanly cut fissure one can see clearly through the entire house, with one half tilted and leaning, as if suffering a foundation failure. The interior is able to be walked through, possibly safely?, and seems like those inside simply disappeared, or were raptured leaving whatever they were doing just lying there. |
32 |
"Drunken Bird" |
A monumental artwork of a flock of 30 foot tall hydraulically actuated replicas of toy "drinking birds,’ they perform choreography, rocking their tall upper bodies authentically like the small toy. One bird lies on the ground, on its side, as if it has fallen over after drinking too much. Resolve: {A giant lampshade is on its head|The air around it is perfumed with the scent of stale beer, which sprays from the top of each bird in a fine mist whenever they "bend over to take a drink".} |
33 |
"Resolve: {UPPER(Roll on {Agony|Apprehension |Dread |Misgiving|Nervousness| Uneasiness|Blues|Depression |Weltschmerz})} - A Resolve: {Comedy|Drama|Documentary|Fiction|Instruction Manual|Novel} in Three Parts" (All the Best People Agree This is Totally Not the Same as "ANGST - A Tragedy in Three Acts" by Jakob Jakobson 2021) |
A 30 foot tall concrete walled rotunda, 150 feet across with unfinished dirt floors and with no roof and open to the outdoors; inside of which, in bold colored uppercase, graffitti letters, is painted the Title of the peice. |
34 |
"Neon Tulips" (Everyone agrees this is totally not IP theft of "Outdoor Living" by Atong Atem, Melbourne 2021) |
Giant Colorful Neon Lights in the shape of Stylized Tulips are mounted on what appears to be the front and side facade of a building wrapped in 1970s wallpaper-inspired floral murals. |
35 |
"Inflated Gold Baloons That Resolve: {Maybe|} Say Something Resolve: {Profound|}" (My Mom Totally doesn't think this is the same thing as Banu Cennetoğlu's, "right?" 2022) |
The artist has filled the atrium space with golden balloons. Each extremely crowded bouquet of several dozens of helium-filled mylar letters spells out Resolve: {an article from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948|A chapter from John Locke's, Second Treatise on Government 1689|Spells from the Necronomicon}. Over time, the baloons have deflated. |
36 |
"Absolutely Not Piet Mondrian's, New York City 1 (1941)" |
This work is composed of various Resolve: {colored cargo straps tightly stretched|Fabric Ribbons|Police and Hazard Tapes} across a large room sized steel frame in a color and pattern that is a dead ringer for Piet Mondrian's, "New York City 1" from 1941. |
37 |
"The Underside of a Row Boat" |
The work is suspended overhead and features a life-size wooden rowboat girdled with several rippling sheets of clear, lightly frosted, or slightly wavy, blue green glass coped and notched around it, as if one were standing on the bottom of a lake looking up at a rowboat floating past. |
38 |
"I Promise This Isn't A Giant Animatronic Papier Mache' Lego Figurine of George Costanza" |
It Totally Is Though, and it's a pretty blatant rip-off. It moves its arms and lays back on a large couch like it wants you to take a sexy budoir photo of it. |
39 |
"Leaves in Bloom" (All the Best Experts Say This Isn't A Rehash of Henri Matisse's "Ivy In Flower" 1951-1954) |
Giant Colored Glass Panels of a Gold, Yellow, or Orange Field and Green and Blue Leaf and Petal shapes. Each panel is unique, 20 feet tall, and the entire installation covers nearly 100 feet. |
40 |
"Grid Installed" (Okay, we admit it's an homage to Josef Albers' "Grid Mounted", 1921) |
Every 30 cm square panel of this building sized monument is a replica of Josef Alber's 1921 abstract peice, a meticulously arranged grid composed of square tiles in varied colors and patterns. Each square panel is a distinct recreation of the original, except it is subtly adjusted to, on the whole create the original on a larger scale. The work showcases different hues such as yellow, green, white, blue, and purple, among others, with some tiles displaying textured patterns or grids within them. A dense black grid holds the square tiles, and is a scaled up replica of the same grid that holds each smaller tile in place on the individual panels. |
1% For Art (Monumental Modern Works) (d40)