No Way Out

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Artist: Janine Brown

Title: No Way Out

Attribution: No Way Out, 2023, Janine Brown

Year: 2023

Materials: Home-cooked bioplastic, shredded U.S. currency, artist's financial statements, hand-stitched with crochet thread

Dimensions: 8" x 5.5" x 8"

Image Statement: No Way Out contemplates housing using a home-cooked bioplastic material embedded with shredded US currency. The inside walls of the structure are created with a bioplastic embedded with paper-pulp from my financial statements. I was thinking about shelter and how once a person owns or rents a place to live, money is continually needed for upkeep or to pay the rent, hence there are no windows or doors and no way out.