45 Pinckney Street, a former auto repair shop that had previously served as a carriage house, was the original site for indigo blue
Using a Pink Pearl eraser and saliva, books were erased back to front.
Materials: blue work clothing, steel and wood base, wood table, chair, light bulb, books (military regulation manuals, blue bindings), saliva, pink pearl erasers, erasures, net sack, soybeans
2007 reinstallation of indigo blue at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Photo credit: John McWilliams, Ann Hamilton, Ian Reeves
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Ann Hamilton on the inspiration for indigo blue, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, December 2006. indigo blue on SFMOMA