Perfect Makeshift
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- Perfect Makeshift
- Perfektes Provisorium
- 2016
- copper wire, diameter 78,5 cm
The work “Perfect Makeshift” relates to traditions prevalent in rural areas that derive utilitarian value out of whatever one finds at hand. Natural resources, be they wood or herbaceous plants, are often gathered and tied together in small bundles for storage and further use. Such circular bundles are often bound together with wire and other materials. Lois Weinberger’s work shows a piece of copper wire bent in a circle that somewhat resembles a piece of jewelry but actually denotes the remains of a device made by hand to hold things in place. The artist thus refers to practices from agriculture and forestry without showing the actual material that was meant to be bundled. W.S.