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Leather Daddy
Leather Daddy
Acrylic, spray paint, foam, plaster, plastic, felt, cloth, aluminum, plastic eyes, trash bag, sticker
35 1/2" x 31" x 20"
2014

Leather Daddy is a variation of the turtle that carries the world on its back. In some mythologies, this is known as the "World Turtle". In this piece, the tortoise carries a bag of biological waste on its back, highly aware of the state of the worlds chemical production and where it eventually ends up

*This work was unfortunately was discarded during the creation of the piece "Garden of Eviction" (2018) See the archive.