This is "Last Spring, Frank's Deli."

In my work there is a tendency to take things apart and generate new bodies of work from the parts, so this is "Frank's Deli" for the exhibition, "The Photogenic," and comes from a series of Doppelgangers. And as you can see, it's a much larger piece than what you saw for "Strings, Things, and Pictures," but it's the same—pretty much—operation. The great thing about this is it's about a deli and most people have been to the deli, or a deli, unlike my mother, who most people haven't met. There is a little bit more open territory here for recognition.

As you can see, on the countertop here, there are these objects that have been part of the Doppelganger and Shadow Project series, and also they're objects that often have a life of their own.

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Like this one, from 1999, which, by pure chance, had a shoelace stuck in it. Well before—I mean, it didn't even occur to me that there was a shoelace in it until I had come sort of full circle thinking about the shoe repair shops, and using shoelaces.