Intimacy is the shit and the gold, but the clean up is not so easy

Intimacy is the shit and the gold…but the clean up is not so easy.
2008
Sugar, gold leaf, Buddhist raised tiger faeces, sugar coated hand-made brooms.
Site-specific Installation
Dimensions variable
Chiang Mai Art Museum, Thailand
Installation Photo: Jay Younger

This work is a response to the breakup of a long term relationship. It is one of two site specific installations produced during an artist in residency at Chiang Mai University, Thailand. The materials and elements incorporated include: two sugar coated elongated brooms placed on either side of a mound of sugar, a mound of sugar topped with gold leafed tiger feaces (from the Buddhist raised tiger retreat in Kanchaniburi, Thailand), lights, and sugar poured over electrical leads.