Christmas Past

Wendy Deutelbaum's ironic Xmas box of Bush-era uncomfortable memories

Memory Bank

The Memory Bank has enough string to tie around your finger for all sorts of memories, large and small, fragmented and compelling...

Long Division

Long Division is a meditation on the woes of the world and the joys of childhood...The box lid has a vintage photo of a child and muses on the statistics that frighten us, then suggests we look at the equation of what delights a small child and for what amount of time. The interior holds 4 toys, each with the amount of time of enjoyment: a bear, a jack in the box (negative seconds because it is scary), drummer boy and rocking horse.

Justice League

Justice League is a box of 4 useable gavels of all sizes, arranged by county, state, federal and supreme. The interior rim of the lid has the lyrics to If I Had A Hammer, and the inside lid has an excerpt from Kafka's "Before The Law"

Incidental Second Thoughts

You Got My Goat

Caption on the Lid: So you got my goat...

Caption inside the box:

But there’s more of us...
We live
under the bridge
near the van
down by the river.

And our name is Gruff...

The Elephant Club

The Elephant Club is a small room lined with teabags, each tag is covered with red and white stripes or white stars on dark blue. The floor is vintage wallpaper, the elephant is an antique porcelain fellow who has lived a long hard life. The flickering strobe of the club is a bicycle light, and on the inside of the Club Door, the Anthem button plays "Jesus Loves Me" in tinny harmony, just below the Thomas Nast cartoon of the original image of the GOP as an elephant. Come on in...it's open 24/7.

Deus Ex Machina - Applause-O-Meter

The praying hands salt and pepper become an Applause-O-Meter with a heart.

We're Not Anxious

Caption: No, if we look anxious it is because, at any moment, the door might open and we will rush into the sun...

All Work and No Play Makes Jack Jill (Strong Woman)