Artists
JOE SCANLAN
Love Nest with Orioles 2006
Archival Inkjet on linen, muslin, cotton floss, plastic, needles, embroidery hoop, cardstock
31 x 24 x 2.5 cm
Edition of 10 + 2 AP
€1900, £1300, $2500
We are delighted to introduce Love Nest with Orioles, the companion craft object to The Massachusetts Wedding Bed.
The Massachusetts Wedding Bed is a queen-sized bed made to order by hand in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, the only state in America that allows same-sex marriage. Love Nest with Orioles is just like any other well-made embroidery kit, one whose hours of labor represent a lifetime of intimacy between a man and a woman or a woman and a woman or a man and a man.
Love Nest with Orioles provides everything you need to craft a beautiful object of love: one pre-printed, pure linen ground, five hand-selected colors of pure cotton floss, two needles, one embroidery hoop, and one sheet of muslin backing. Once completed, this commemorative image can be stretched as a painting, stitched into a pillow, or framed as a work of art.
Here at Dadadandy, we believe that commerce breeds acceptance. In the early stages of any civil rights movement, protests, demonstrations, editorials and public advocacy are crucial for bringing issues to the attention of a wider public. Such actions are generally spawned by frustration and received with anger, and no amount of appeals to ethics or rights can fully overcome the spirit of conflict, of resentment, with which a movement starts. After the high ideals and lowdown nastiness have run their course, however, it is commerce that ultimately accomplishes what piety and aggression could not.
Americans, as a majority, are against gay marriage. But an even greater majority—and one with a much deeper conviction—is for the sale at a profit of shoes, gowns, tuxedos, rings, flowers, cakes, flatware, decorations, champagne, pajamas, hotel rooms, airline tickets, almonds, lace, and candles. In the long run, the dull routine of commerce—of money exchanged for goods and services, the taxes paid on that income and the goods and services consumed—does more to persuade the American public of what is right and decent than sophisticated rhetoric ever could.
Love Nest with Orioles! The only embroidery kit on the market whose very purchase is a statement of support for the rights of any two consenting adults to live, love and get married, however they see fit.
All dadadandy editions are issued with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Courtesy Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp; Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris