Strawberry Koolaid Heart

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Nettles used Koolaid as “a metaphor for childhood and innocence” in a group of portraits of the artist and her sisters. In this image of her sister Elizabeth, a vinyl pouch originally filled with colored liquid was stitched onto the paper over the image. While on view at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA, a visitor pressed the glass, causing the vinyl heart to break and the colored liquid to ooze down the board and the wall.

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