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Make An Artist A Millionaire: 400 to 1: Sanford Weill

Phase 4 of "Make an Artist a Millionaire" is called "400 to 1." It entails writing a letter to each of the people on the Forbes 400 list to solicit a donation. The project is more about sussing out human nature and understanding how to get through to the kind of person who, on the surface, couldn't be more different from the average artist: the business person. The same challenge of asking for something in return for nothing that exists on the lower end of the scale of quantity--$1--is amplified many times in approaching millionaires and billionaires.

Make An Artist A Millionaire: 400 to 1: John Glen Sperling

Phase 4 of "Make an Artist a Millionaire" is called "400 to 1." It entails writing a letter to each of the people on the Forbes 400 list to solicit a donation. Rather than sending a form letter to each member of the Forbes 400, the intent is to research each person and craft a personalized plea.

This Clock Will Never…

This Clock Will Never Be Stolen Because the Employees Are Always Watching It

Moving on to New Opportunities

For Bill Callahan.

Monument

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“Aging Smiley” t-shirt by Custom Flotilla

Youth is so last year. Express your solidarity with middle-aged persons (i.e. those over 25) with this nuanced take on a popular icon.

“Aging Smiley”

“Proust: Time Recovered” (work in progress)

The Wager

Blaise Pascal: 418. The Wager. I: Unity added to infinity does not increase it at all. II: There is not so great a disproportion between our justice and God’s as between unity and infinity. III: We know the existence of the infinite without knowing its nature, because it too has extension, but unlike us no limits. IV: If there be a god, he is infinitely beyond our comprehension, since, being indivisible and without limits, he bears no relation to us. We are therefore incapable of knowing what he is or whether he is. V: …let us say: “Either God is or he is not.” But to which view shall we be inclined? Reason cannot decide this question. Infinite chaos separates us. At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun which will come down heads or tails. How will you wager? Reason cannot make you choose either, reason cannot prove either wrong. VI: Yes, but you must wager."

Three Untitled Assemblages (Clocks)

Three untitled pieces made with clocks: top left is scrambled numbers, top right is a compass, and the bottom piece features water. Gallery installation view with artist, Oakland, Calif., 2009.

Perpetual Motion [felt]

Blaise Pascal: "56. We are so unhappy that we can only enjoy something which we should be annoyed to see go wrong, and that can and does happen constantly to thousands of things. Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when things go badly would have found the point. It is perpetual motion."

Untitled (study for “The Wager”)

Study for a piece called “The Wager”, 2009

Untitled (second study for “The Wager”)

Study for a piece called “The Wager”, 2009

Three untitled pieces (2006)

Three untitled pieces (2006)

Scatter

Shadow of the Mink

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