David Wojnarowicz
Objects & Artifacts - The objects in this series include
religious objects, figurines, jewelry, toys, textiles, and artworks.
While some of the objects are artworks made by Wojnarowicz, they also
include artworks made by others, ritual objects, natural artifacts and
commercial objects that he collected. Some of the objects figured as
props in Wojnarowicz’s photography and film works.
Small Painted Mammal Skull, sculpted material, wire, blue paint, 4 x 2.875 x 2.875 inches
Stones, possibly quartz, between .5 and 1 inches in diameter.
Envelope of Paper Currency, 280,000
and Argentina Pesos. contents: seven 1 peso bills; eighteen 10,000 peso
bills; one 100,000 peso bill; one 100 Turkish bill; one 50 Israeli
bill, 4 x 9.5 inches
Framed Photo of Young Yogi, Sepia
colored photograph of boy wearing a necklace and large bindi dot on his
forehead, framed in plastic standing frame. Boy is probably Swami
Muktananda. Copyright SYDA Foundation, 3.375 x 2.25 x 1.75 inches
Cloth Snake, Green and white striped cloth stuff snake, with embroidered dots of green, purple, red and yellow, 6.375 x 9 x 1.75 inches
Dog-head Toy, Plastic dog head attached to rubber base, perhaps a horn, 3.75 x 1.125 x 1.8 inches
Group of Knives, File, Clipper, Lighter, Tweezers, One
“Space Ship” pocket and jack knife; one black lighter; one nail
clipper; two tweezers; one pocket knife/file combo, 5 x 5 x 0.5 inches
Glass Phial with Porcupine Quills, round glass bottle with many plastic hedgehog or porcupine quills, 2.625 x 11 inches
Worry Beads and Necklaces, Large
bundle of necklaces and stringed beads. Labeled by MR: Worry-Beads and
Necklaces A(14) 4/11-12/95. Stone bead necklaces: one mostly yellow
cylinders; one black, yellow and red necklace with mother of pearl
Indian head pendant; two necklaces of purple flat cylinders; one
turquoise beads; one of green white and red cylinders; two of small
beads, many green; one green striped orbs; one of red oblong stones.
Miscellaneous necklaces: one green with yellow stripes beads; one heavy
metal cylinders; one of beads made from US dimes; one of ornamented
silver orbs; brown plastic rosary; one green plastic beads; one
mutli-colored faceted gem-like beads; one silver chain; one light blue
beads rosary; African style yellow, black and red beads on leather; one
of multi-colored stones, plastic, clay; plastic reed heart with yellow
squiggles pendant on string. Red tissue paper, 2.5 x 144.5 inches
Circle Pin, Black and White concentric circles pin, 1.25 x 1.25 inches
(Source:
museumuesum)
