A visual cacophony of broken toys and the detritus of motherhood fill a bamboo cutlery tray mounted on the wall. Most easily visible are a plastic snake, foam Pac Man, fishing pole, red tube, DUPLO train, caution tape, and bubble wands. There are also various candy wrappers, stickers, crayons, small toys, and broken objects throughout.
Closeup shows a small Ace of spades, a DUPLO train, colorful linking rings, dried macaroni, and charging cable reaching out beyond the frame.
Closeup shows caution tape, pacifier, blue monkey, red crayon, headless C3PO, paper dice, dum dum wrapper, broken jumping frog, broken pencil and a penny.
This image shows the bottom right corner of the piece where a pacifier holder holds three bubble wands below the frame.
Closeup shows a plastic snake, thermometer, I voted early sticker, fishing pole, caution tape, nasal bulb, broken one ring teether, and various other toys and broken objects.

THE MENTAL LOAD

2023 / broken toys, detritus of motherhood / 28” x 25” x 8”
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