Oil on board 15 x 15cm
I remember watching Robert Hughs' TV programme: The Shock of the New and he featured the Clothespin sculpture by Claes Oldenburg. It was a giant peg so that when you gazed up it read as a huge figure conveying monumental strength and presence. The shock of seeing something so mundane, so ordinary, made large also seemed very funny to me: a shock or displacement.
So here are three little pegs, barely larger than sight size, completely free of of virility but instead companionable, domestic...
Clothespin by Claes Oldenburg
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