Repair Shop Claim Tag Illustration (unframed print)

$500.00

$100 from each sale will be donated to WYSO 91.3, the Yellow Springs NPR affiliate, in support of the important community and reporting work the station produces every day.

13”x19” Printed on 100% cotton rag, signed, numbered, and stamp-authenticated by the artist. Print is delivered in a sturdy mailing tube. Comes with copy of tag displayed with art during the exhibit. Only 5 prints will be made from this run. Please allow 10–15 business days for production and delivery.

Art description: A utilitarian identifier, the claim tag linked customer to object within repair systems ranging from vacuum cleaners to lawn mowers. Typically produced with a tear-away stub, one portion remained with the item while the other was retained by the customer as proof of ownership. Numbered and perforated, the tag mediated trust, standing in for the object during its absence. Unlike today’s consumer culture of disposable goods and planned obsolescence, a repaired and returned television symbolized a time of much less excess.

$100 from each sale will be donated to WYSO 91.3, the Yellow Springs NPR affiliate, in support of the important community and reporting work the station produces every day.

13”x19” Printed on 100% cotton rag, signed, numbered, and stamp-authenticated by the artist. Print is delivered in a sturdy mailing tube. Comes with copy of tag displayed with art during the exhibit. Only 5 prints will be made from this run. Please allow 10–15 business days for production and delivery.

Art description: A utilitarian identifier, the claim tag linked customer to object within repair systems ranging from vacuum cleaners to lawn mowers. Typically produced with a tear-away stub, one portion remained with the item while the other was retained by the customer as proof of ownership. Numbered and perforated, the tag mediated trust, standing in for the object during its absence. Unlike today’s consumer culture of disposable goods and planned obsolescence, a repaired and returned television symbolized a time of much less excess.