Overtime
Cast Wax C-Clamps
Budd Company Steel Plant, Philadelphia, PA
2011
A site specific installation analyzing the use of numerical ordering in manufacturing settings, as well as the deterioration of industry in late 20th century America. The white, wax c-clamps hang in a luminescent abacus, ordered in the sequence 1981 to reference the period of Budd’s decline and ultimate collapse. The piece is intended to be reordered by viewers, each leaving a brief footprint to be undone by other explorers of the abandoned complex. The nature of the c-clamp echoes industry and strength juxtaposed with the weakness of wax, another reference to contemporary economic decline. Ultimately Overtime is a small memorial to the once grand Budd Company.
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