Pretty Vacant Installation Pictures

Suzanne Stroebe and Greg Lindquist Collaboration

Letter to the Editor: The Natural World has Color
Materials: wood, cement, glass, mirror, water, organic white vinegar, cherry blossoms, shitake mushrooms, tulips, gin, red wine vinegar, bitters, cucumber vine, mold, dill, gentian, vodka, local honey, black turtle bean broth, LED lights, halogen lights, and compact fluorescent bulbs. Dimensions, Structural Integrity Variable, 2011

“We do not obtain knowledge by standing outside of the world; we know because “we” are of the world.”

--Karen Barad, “Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter,” 2003

“Without the artificial coloring FD&C Yellow No. 6, Cheetos Crunchy Cheese
Flavored Snacks would look like the shriveled larvae of a large insect. Not surprisingly, in taste tests, people derived little pleasure from eating them. Gummi worms without artificial coloring would look, like, well, muddily translucent worms. Jell-O would emerge out of the refrigerator a watery tan. No doubt the world would be a considerably duller place without artificial food coloring.”

-- Gardiner Harriss, The New York Times, April 2, 2011

“The FDA was founded a century ago to ensure the American people a safe & healthy food supply. It is not meant to put the best interest of food manufacturers and/or producers before the consumer, which is exactly what the FDA did this month by not considering a ban or even a warning label on food containing the dyes. It’s shameful that something as frivolous as food coloring–something that could potentially harm our children’s health and future success and adds absolutely no nutritional value to the food product–has been overlooked by the FDA. Perhaps it is because it was found to only affect those children already suffering from behavior problems? Maybe the FDA is right –it may be easier to simply feed our children multiple drugs for their ADD and ADHD than to deal with the root of the problem and deny them their Froot Loops.”

-- Michelle Stroebe, A Letter to The New York Times in Response to Harriss

“We're the flowers in the dustbin, We're the poison in the human machine, We're the future, we're the future.”

--Sex Pistols, “God Save the Queen”

Dill, Red Wine Vinegar and Water

Tulip and Water and Gin

Local Honey and Water and LED light

Studio Grown Rosemary and Wine and Water

Cherry Blossoms and Vodka

Black Turtle Bean Broth