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Allan McCollum

More Visible Markers in Twelve Exciting Colors, 2003

Each Visible Marker Bearing the Engraved Inscription "THANKS"
Each Visible Marker cast in Hydrocal and individually painted with Oil-Based Enamel
1 3/4 x 4 x 4 inches each
Edition of Approximately 1,000; 85 in each color
Each Individually Numbered, Signed and Dated "2000" by Allan McCollum in Felt Pen, bottom

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Allan McCollum More Visible Markers in Twelve Exciting Colors, 2003
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Allan McCollum More Visible Markers in Twelve Exciting Colors, 2003
Numbered, Signed and Dated, bottom

Based on the continuing series the Visible Markers project developed by Allan McCollum, this Visible Marker set, featuring the message "THANKS" is an object that obtains its significance through the process of its exchange. It serves as a constant reminder of the importance of giving and receiving gratitude and appreciation. Giving art away potlatch-style is part of McCollum’s Visible Markers (1997), small colorful scuptures resembling Fort Knox gold bars inscribed with the word "Thanks." Each acquires meaning—like a semiotic shifter—only when "in use" by a specific person (gifted by the collector as a token of appreciation).