fabric, stuffed fabric christmas tree, stuffed nylon ring, spray-enameled wooden chopsticks & dowels, spray-enameled plastic fencing in constant peeling-state, spray-enameled plastic/wire bird & plastic crosses, digital vector image inkjet-transferred to fabric. approx. 76 x 40 x 40 cm. Installation version consisted of A3 + A4 printed posters & fabric transfers/dowels.
An alternative christmas tree created for "Blood On The Snow" group exhibition at Slackspace, Colchester, UK
P.R.A.M. is an acronym for the fictitious revolutionary design gang “Passive Radical Action Movement”, meant to act like an organization which just makes aesthetic protest yet does no real protesting. H.T.P. is an acronym for “Holiday Time Period”, a generalized term for the time around December when various religious festivals commence. The tree features hand-sewn fabric remnants, an integrated piece of plastic fencing which has been enameled and then chipped away at, an enameled bird at the top with enameled crosses (intentionally ironic) & reminders of P.R.A.M.’s H.T.P. slogan “Is This It?.” The slogan is an obvious stab at the consumerist overbuying gifts during this period.
The idea would be that small posters would exist out in the streets as vague protest/promotion for the group while the tree would exist someplace people would just have to find on their own. For the “Blood on the Snow” exhibition I was unable to send the actual tree due to the absolutely ridiculous pricing of the Royal Post. To send the tree back to the USA from the UK would have cost 3x the price of sending it from the USA to the UK. Inadvertently, the project about over-consumption ends up also becoming an example of the price-gouging people have to deal with on a daily basis.
