TITLE: Finger Box
DATE:
c. 1964
ARTIST:
Ay-O
DIMENSIONS:
  • 7.5
  • 7.5
  • 7.5
Materials
Wood (Plant material); Paper (Fiber product); Ink; Rubber (Material); Nylon; Stockings; Offset printing
Description

Cubic wooden box containing nylon stockings. Paper label on side and rubber top with slit for finger.

Artist Note
Japanese painter and conceptual artist, born 1931, active in the United States. Regarding the Fingerbox Ay-O remarks: because one must touch its unknown contents, the viewer approaches the work cautiously with an "enquiring, learning gesture" (Higgins, Fluxus Experience, 39-40).

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