Corian
30 x 24 x 50 inches

'TK' is a life-size, upside-down US presidential lectern made of honed glacier white Corian. The changes in orientation and material render it somewhat unfamiliar; it could be an abstract sculpture, an empty pedestal, or a quarry block awaiting a sculptor's chisel (Corian, a synthetic stone, becomes seamless when sanded and polished). Like an actual presidential lectern, 'TK' is an inert object requiring activation. The title borrows from the letter pair that writers use as a placeholder for details they do not yet have; it is a bastardization of 'to come.'

‘TK’ was produced for the exhibition ‘MetroPoles, Culture in Action,’ curated by Heng-Gil Han and Jose Ruiz at the Jamaica Center for the Arts, which required a first set of artists to produce objects or actions that a second and third set then altered, augmented, or destroyed. ‘TK’ was part of the first phase, and was subsequently transformed by Jason Eisner and Jason Balicki.