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Given Presence is a public art project created and produced by Name[d] in which small digital works are created for the singular purpose of giving away. Approximately modeled after the designer toy industry's concept of "blind box assortments,"  such works are produced and printed in limited runs and editions and are then packaged and concealed inside gift boxes. These "gifts" are then placed into the public sphere for anyone to view or receive (take). As a final component of this project this blog was created so that recipients of these works might respond to the project as a whole or to individual works as well. All comments and criticisms are welcomed. 

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Halosination

National insecurity reinforces the mythic frame: We are God’s holy city on the hill and our manifest destiny is of covenantal proportions, even to the ends of the earth. But God is not an American. We are not his people. This is not the promised land. A Halo Sin Nation. Yet our fortune has been to live rather than to die if only for a season in Rome. And in this way a juxtaposition of gifted grace and assumed fate mark the making a hallucination.

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% - the percentages below each image represent the recipient's probability of receiving that particular image according to the numbers produced and distributed.
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