Ephemera Series #1, Vermiculation

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1974

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Research Projects

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Medium: Etching with chine collé.


Print Image Size: 23 3/4 x 17 7/8 inches.


Print Edition: 10 (with 3 artist's proofs).


Alternate Medium: Color photo-etching with chine collé.


Ink(s): purple.


Support: wove paper with blue chine-collé.


Close-up portrait of President Richard Nixon and newspaper text pertaining to the Watergate scandal, with maggots covering the entire image. The large headline at the top reads "Tape Deepens Nixon's Dilemma." The same image of Nixon with fragments of newspaper text appear in Ephemera Series #2, The Negative and Positive Aspects of Immortality [CMA 2001.034.280].

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