Telephone receiver from a landline phone.
Solid bronze. 5 lbs
8 × 2.5 inches
Numbered and signed.
The Squeezed Kewpie Japanese Mayo is listed in both the food and bathroom sections, because it reads as a shampoo or lotion bottle, maybe even more so than Japanese mayo. I’ve included a small photo series to illustrate how puffy white condiment transformed into an angular bronze non-condiment. You’ll find it under “tubes" and “domestic” as well. Although I’m thinking I should get rid of the domestic section as that’s kinda my whole schtick is casting everyday domestic items in highfalutin bronze.
Given that the defining characteristic of the bottle is that you can squeeze it, and squeeze it in a way you really can’t squeeze American condiment bottles, it felt imperative to cast it in squeezed form. Like Kewpie mayo, Pearce bronze mayo is satisfying to hold, but the experience is quite unlike the amophic, soft-sided Japanese mayo bottle. But what Pearce bronze mayo lacks in malleability, it makes up for with its impressive weight and shelf-life.
There’s a shrinkage rate when molten bronze cools and hardens, explaining the difference in height between the original bottle and its alchemical cousin in bronze.
8 × 4 inches
5 lbs. Signed and numbered.
Solid Bronze
Signed and numbered.
4 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches
5 lbs
I made this crushed can a couple years ago, hoping it would memorialize my no longer drinking gross Cutwater canned margaritas.
People often ask me if these bronze artifacts are paperweights. Although I don’t think of them primarily as such, I can tell you that they do handily hold down paper should you need them to. I recently used the can to hold down some photo paper while photographing Kissweh pillows.
Poop Emoji
The "poop emoji" in bronze! I call it "poop-emoji" and not just “poop" because of the idealized 3D rendition, courtesy of a poop-shaped plastic Easter egg available at the 99 Cent store a few years ago. I love that the poop is a golden spiral… a logarithmic spiral governed by the golden ratio in nature… galaxies, shells, some spider webs, cactus… also knows as the “Divine Proportion.” I had a fun wide-ranging discussion about all this as well as “math broccoli” and “Ophiocordyceps," aka cordyceps, aka zombie ant fungus #thelastofus with a fun couple at my Palm Springs pop-up at @palmcanyongalleeria in February… #goldenspiral #fibonaccisequence #fibonaccispiral #branchingfractals
As a wise young person @loistryk once put on a protest sign at the Women’s March @womensmarch after Trump’s inauguration in 2017: “A Poop is Better Than Trump!”
Solid Bronze, 2 x 2 inches