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Thaniel Ion Lee work resume blog links twitter 2009 ADA Abstraction Black Work For Nails a series of very short thought based works. i consider each of these sentences to be separate works, and they should be presented either separately or in a cluster of similar works. 2008  170 used wheelchairs is a collection of photographs of wheelchairs that were on sale on craigslist during the week of september 15th to the 20th. each one of these photographs both tell the individual stories of the owners of the chairs and tell the story of the collective lives of people in chairs. a series of very short thought based works. i consider each of these sentences to be separate works, and they should be presented either separately or in a cluster of similar works. Wall Drawing For Two People Of Similar Height Untitled Work For Gray Chalk Dust Untitled Work Documenting The Passage Of Time Black Work For Fingers Hole Untitled Work Documenting The Passage Of Time Number Two Wall Painting For Hands Mirror A Metaphor For Genocide Sculpture Number One Red Star Of Variable Dimensions Black Square Number One 42708 42708-2 [two triangles] Work For A Single Sheet Of Paper Chair 
 
CDR - 1min 54sec in this work i attempted to make a sonic metaphor for americas ignorance of and its attempt to forget its own history of eugenics . i took a found radio program about the history of california's eugenic program, and edited out all the information that was given and left only the dead air, microphone pops, vocal ticks, breaths and other sonic debris that we usually try to ignore.  2007     
 water colour on paper file - 3min 58sec - not for sale 2006 CDR - 3min 56sec a series of what do you call...... jokes read by a stephen hawking-ish computer voice. two 8.5in by 11in panels 
in this work the words you act as normal as you are treatedare repeated as many times as the piece of paper/s , wall or object can hold. this personal and social complication is a conundrum that almost every person born differently must face as they go through life. for example how is a person that is treated differently from either birth or from the moment they enter society suppose to act normal if they are never treated like everyone else and in turn how is society suppose to treat these individuals normally if they do not act or look like the rest of society. this complication not only faces the disabled, it also faces celebrities, socialites, the very poor,and anyone else that was born outside of the average sphere of the society in which they live in. that being said i do not think this social complexity should be used as an excuse for either the indiscretions of individuals or groups that differ from the rest of society nor is it an excuse for the bigotry contained within the world, society or any social group/s, because a people could adopt or appropriate some or if not all of the actions, looks and/or mores of the society in which they live in and the society that those people live in could/should learn to accept the fact that certain people/s act and look a certain way because they have no other choice in the matter. 2004 - 2005 this work consists of 901 i statements that i both thought of and/or found over a period of three years. i view all of these statements as self portraits. some of them are realistic and other involve costumes constructed out of thoughts and words.         
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