Please Cooperate
While cleaning out some old files, I came across old rental applications and lease agreements, many of which I had never read. Please Cooperate is a reconfiguration of these texts spread across four large sheets of cast paper. The monotonous and authoritative language of these contracts is rearranged into nonsensical, repetitive, and mantra-like configurations which shed the original context or meaning while preserving motifs of bureaucracy, order, and uniformity.
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Please Cooperate
2018
Cast paper and paint
4 panels, each approx. 24 x 40 in.