Karen Hanmer

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Title: Big River

Big River

Big River | 2004 | $400

Pigment inkjet prints, binders' board, plexiglass, ball bearings

10.75 x 8.75 x 1.25"

Edition of 20
Like the child’s pocket game, the viewer maneuvers the box to get each of the balls into a divot corresponding to a city mentioned in the Johnny Cash song, Big River, where the lovesick narrator chases his woman down the Mississippi River, missing her at every port.