Gary Joseph Cohen

(clockwise, from upper left):

1. WTC PROPOSAL APPARATUS

2. PHEROMONE APPARATUS

3. CARECROW APPARATUS

4. SMARTER SMART BOMB APPARATUS.

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At the time I was reading Stephen Hawking's The Illustrated A Brief History of Time, Frederick Seidel's The Cosmos Poems, and Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology. Thoughts on entropy, time and space, and the relationship between nano-circuits and livestock-labor led me to conceive machines that neither functioned well nor required much in the way of maintenance. I like the idea of a machine running on hay or a cheese sandwich, exerting more energy than it consumes, and falling to disrepair without leaving a significant footprint. I had to believe, if only briefly, that it was possible to create apparatuses that possess a sense of mortality, even morality, and could be constructed from the simplest and most available of household items.