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Modern Art Monday Presents: David Wojnarowicz, Bread Sculpture

Bread Sculpture
All Photos By Gail

David Wojnarowicz (19541992) 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 (198687), Wojnarowicz included footage of the stitching together of a broken loaf of bread.
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