Ready(made)-To-Assemble

Lite-Brite

15” x 12” x 28”

This piece speaks of planned obsolescence and the idea that home furnishings such as this makeshift “light” as well as the majority of current goods are not "made like they are used to". The title functions as a dual reference to one of IKEA's main objectives that their products are "ready-to-assemble" for the consumer, as well as an art history reference to Marcel Duchamp's conceptual "Ready-made" series, that highlights that ordinary manufactured objects can take on whatever role the artist projects onto them.