The Final Straw    2021

brass, thread, vintage photo    19"×5"×2½"

Yes, this is based upon my own unpleasant experience. I chose not to use a photo of myself with the person because I didn’t want to make this piece pointedly personal and hurt the other. I instead used this vintage photo of these two anonymous women because I liked their easy friendship, I liked their beers and cigarettes. 

The “she” could be either one, which obscures seeing one of them as the villain and the other as the betrayed. It doesn’t matter who said it, what matters is that someone actually said something this stupid and selfish. And believed it. 

2021 sucked because of people like this.