Broken Walmart Bowl
2007
I found this broken clay bowl near the Dufferin Grove Park in Toronto. It had a Walmart tag on its base, so I sent Walmart a fax to see if they could tell me anything about where it was made and if it could be fixed, but I didn’t hear back from them. I then posted a “found” ad for it on Craigslist, and I received two responses - one person called me a “dumbass” and another wrote a poem for the broken bowl.
I made ten slip-cast ceramic replicas of the broken bowl, and tried to sell one of my broken copies on eBay, but no one bid on it.
Installation shot of copies from Material Concerns at the Centres des arts actuels Skol in Montreal, 2008, photographed by Guy L’Heureux. More info here.
