The White Album pt. I (cigarettes)

Art

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

The White Album pt. I (cigarettes)

Entry/Object ID

2019.01

Description

Twenty (or more) cigarette butts strung together in woven diamond pattern, rimmed by brown weaving

Artwork Details

Medium

cotton; wool, cigarette butts

Context

This work was part of exhibit "Some Kind of Duty" in 2019, which featured new weavings by kg. They incorporated references ranging from addiction, personal and family histories, mourning, and their beloved dog Pawel to Polish immigration, badminton, poetry, Jim Morrison and the Doors, and feminist fiber artists.

Acquisition

Accession

2019.01-02

Source or Donor

Karolina Gnatowski

Acquisition Method

Purchase

Credit Line

Courtesy of the artist

Made/Created

Artist

Karolina Gnatowski

Date made

2018

Ethnography

Notes

Polish American

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

LGBTQ+, sexual orientation, sociological concepts, social science concepts, weaving, assembling (additive and joining process), cotton (textile), textile materials, materials (substances), addiction, noncommunicable disease, disease, health-related concepts, biological concepts, scientific concepts, tobacco (material), leaf (plant material), plant material, biological material, plant fiber, natural fiber, fiber, mental health, health, grief, negative emotions, emotion, psychological concepts

Hierarchy Name

Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), Materials (hierarchy name)

Facet

Associated Concepts Facet, Activities Facet, Materials Facet

Dimensions

Dimension Description

overall

Width

96 in

Depth

2 in

Length

120 in

Exhibition

Some Kind of Duty

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Object Label

Label

Doubled up warped and pretensioned strung with all the last butts laced through with wool in tobacco color ways that you bought on your annual trip to colorado that you get to take and I went once too back when we used to talk before november woven and lzenged by myself making little lips around each smoke