The perfect package fresh from the dry cleaners contains a garment free from mites, dirt, wrinkles, and any other signs of human life. Both laundered object and smells are contained – captured – underneath a thin plastic sheen. A necessitated by-product of office life, dry cleaners dot every neighborhood in New York City, their large windows opening onto racks of hung garments, pressed together, sterile, separated and contained by layers and layers of that shining, thin plastic – low density polyethylene, also known as LDPE plastic # four.
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Modern Art Monday Presents: Mike Kelley, Ah. . .Youth!
A kitsch klatch of thrift shop yarn dolls and stuffed animals get the yearbook photo treatment alongside the genuine article (featuring the artist himself) in Mike Kelley’s lineup of misfit mug shots entitled Ah . . . Youth! (1991). The artist’s self-charicature compares his apathetic, acne-scarred, adolescent self to the cuddly but creepy castoffs in a fractured fairytale about youth.
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