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In Globe of the United States (1990), artist and activist David Wojnarowicz transforms a familiar object into a charged symbol of political and cultural critique. This mixed-media sculpture — a lightbulb-illuminated globe, its surface painted black — abandons the standard cartographic view of the world. Instead, multiple outlines of the United States float across a void of darkness, isolated from any surrounding continents.
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David Wojnarowicz (1954 – 1992) used red string as a material throughout his practice. From his early supermarket posters to the flower paintings, he stitched red string into the surface of his compositions to suggest the seams and irreconcilable breaks in culture. In his unfinished film, A Fire In MY Belly (1986 – 87), Wojnarowicz included footage of the stitching together of a broken loaf of bread.
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This photograph of artist David Wojnarowicz (1954 – 1992) was taken in late May of 1991 at Chaco Canyon in New Mexico while Wojnarowicz and his friend Marion Scemama took a road trip around the American Southwest. Cynthia Carr, the artist’s biographer, describes how the photograph came to be:
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