Patterson, sitting alone in the booth of a fast food restaurant, chews up handfuls of french fries, spits out the chewed potato, and forms the material into a tower.
Chip Mountain (2009)
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Campbell Patterson
Clean Loop (2007)
Patterson, fresh from the shower, a towel still around his waist, attempts a spontaneous action, through the windows of his bathroom.
Campbell Patterson
Soapstealer (2004)
Patterson pumps hand soap from the dispenser in a public bathroom into an ice-cream container.
Campbell Patterson
seven fires (2008)
The artist fills a public toilet with toilet paper, sets it alight, lets it burn, flushes it away, cleans the bowl, and leaves.
He tuhinga roa anōRelated essay
George Watson on Campbell Patterson's Chip Mountain
George Watson on Campbell Patterson's Chip Mountain
EssayTuhinga roa
In CIRCUIT's 2015 Summer Reading Series we asked six writers to respond to a work they'd recently encountered that left an indelible impression on them. Here, George Watson writes on Campbell Paterson's 2009 work Chip Mountain.