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"The pitchfork needs earth or it isn't really a pitchfork. It only, it needs something else in order to be activated, and my, the light-bulb needs electricity, it needs a socket to go into, you know. "

Michael Craig-Martin
vs
Old Plank Road







Michael Craig Martin, 1960's
vs
Old Plank Road



"Well I've, I've always considered that the, all of the image, the images that I use have to do with some play between presence and absence.

I mean all of the objects, because each object is seen individually, it always needs another object in order to be completed. The pitchfork needs earth or it isn't really a pitchfork. It only, it needs something else in order to be activated, and my, the light-bulb needs electricity, it needs a socket to go into, you know. All the different things need something, and the other thing that's, that's present and also absent in all of them is human presence, they are all the most human of objects.

No one looks at these things without thinking of their own life, without thinking of these things mean something to absolutely everybody."

- Michael Craig-Martin, interview here...



second image via here...
Antiques on Old Plank Road, Inc.
1750 N. Springfield Avenue



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