SWOON "Nee Nee"

Artist: SWOON Title: NEE NEE About the print:  Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle 210gsm 50% rag watercolor paper13″x19″ paper size Hand numbered edition of 175 Signed by the Artist "Neenee was one of the kids from the Braddock Youth project that we’d given a summer job to help us do little things like paint the enormous scale model of the building we’d constructed...This piece contains worlds. It’s a moment when my years of doing community based work came together with my background as a classically trained artist, back when I didn’t even have the framework to imagine that working in community could itself be an artwork.  It’s a piece that was informed by everything that came before it, and has sent massive ripples to everything that came after. In it you see the bell-tower of the church split off and repeated many times. You see the roof and my proposal for ceramic tiles.  The geometric shape in the middle is the understructure of the ceiling after we took all the falling plaster d