Les Krims
2005, August
I'd Seen Some Spectacular Butter Sculpture at Fairs […]

Inkjet print
Provided by the artist - Les Krims
Courtesy of the artist
 
I'd Seen Some Spectacular Butter Sculpture at Fairs: Snoop Dog in a Compound Butter Flecked with Chives; The Comic, Rip Taylor, in a Storm of Tinted Butter Patties, which Looked Like His Trademark Confetti; Aretha Franklin, Filling the Refrigerated Housing So Full a Turntable Had Not Seemed a Good Idea; Even Madeleine Albright, Posed at the Gate of Auschwitz, the Words "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Shall Make You Free) Cleverly Constructed in Quarter-Pound Bars Made of a New Irradiated Product Said to Not Go Rancid for Years. Here, an Elderly Woman in a Wheelchair Observes a Butter Sculpture of Fred Astair with Tails and a Cane Dancing, Her Right Thumb's Nail Polish Worn Away Sucking on It.
Erie County Fair, Hamburg, New York, August, 2005.
 
Printed by Les Krims, in a Basement in Buffalo, New York - a Failed Border Town Where the Stank of Government Cheese Meets the E.Coli Scented Lake Erie Breeze.
 
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