Allan McCollum
Texts on:
Over Ten Thousand
Individual Works(CLICK HERE FOR IMAGES)
To produce the Individual Works hundreds of small shapes are casually collected from peoples' homes, supermarkets, hardware stores, and sometimes from the sidewalks: bottle-caps, jar-lids, drawer-pulls, salt-shakers, flashlights, measuring spoons, cosmetics containers, yogurt cups, earrings, push-buttons, candy-molds, garden-hose connectors, paper-weights, shade-pulls, Chinese tea-cups, cat toys, pencil sharpeners, etc. From this collection of shapes many rubber molds are produced from which replicas of these shapes can be hand-cast in plaster in large quantities — thus creating a vocabulary of shapes which can be combined to produce new shapes, and so forth. A simple numerical system is used during the production process to insure that no two finished Individual Works will ever be alike. Each unique Individual Work is hand-cast in gypsum, and hand-painted with an enamel paint. The Individual Works are usually gathered into collections of over 10,000 per collection, and each collection of over ten thousand has been painted a different color; however, even if each Individual Work was painted the same color, each shape would still be one-of-a-kind. There have been over 30,000 completely unique Individual Works produced to date.
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(last updated 1/1/03)
of different series, 1969-2001
selection of pictures
for references to the artist