72 plates in the Wedgwood style installed at the Mall of America, Bloomington, Minnesota as part of the Made Here project (photo: Steven Lang)
What do we Want? is layered with an intentional clutter of representations. Each hand-crafted plate contains symbols and images that present possible answers to the title question, although it may be unclear what those answers are and just who each plate represents: actual individuals, survey percentages, or imagined participants. The cacophony of signifiers mimics the noise of advertising, constantly telling us what our desires ought to be. Is this plate collection a coherent response or does it represent a society unable to decide how to live together?
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