28 August 2018

Some of the 63 objects taken from her son's mouth

2011 - 2012 / acorn, bolt, bubblegum, buttons, carbon paper, chalk, Christmas decoration, cigarette butt, coins (GBP, USD, EURO), cotton reel, holly leaf, little wooden man, sharp metal pieces, metro ticket, nuts, plastic “O”, polystyrene, rat poison (missing), seeds, slide, small rocks, specimen vial, sponge animal, sticks, teabag, wire caps, wooden block / size laid out as shown 40" x 40" x 1"
Lenka Clayton is a conceptual artist and recent mother.  She wanted to continue her artistic endeavors while staying at home with her one-year-old son.  The photo above is a portion of the mounted collection of objects she removed from her son's mouth between ages 8-15 months.

2 comments:

  1. Not to be judgmental (I mean, I once had to bring my preschool daughter to the ER after she swallowed a penny . . . and then had to, er, watch for it to make sure it emerged eventually) but geez, some of these things really shouldn't have been within the kid's reach!

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