Peep Show I

by PK Jamison

3" x 2" x 5" (Tin) • Recycled Toy Box with Recyled Altoid Tin, Mirror, Peeps, Paint, and Text $100

This tin is part of a group of artworks I started in response to increasing surveillance of artists, scholars, and other professionals crtical of the US administration, War in Iraq and treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. The piece uses both real text copied from the Bill of Rights, Constitution, and Declaration of Independence, as well as newsprint, a mirror, and actual Peeps (3 of them) with the words "Who is Watching?" pasted onto the Altoid paper insert. I was surprised in Fall of 2005 when I showed it to people that no one really worried about the loss of privacy or freedom of speech, nor understood the artwork meaning or statement. I hope, with all of the latest investigations, the response would be much different a year later. The work fuses humor with recycled materials and actual documents to draw attention to the loss of privacy, freedom of speech, and feelings of increased isolation---captured on and within the tin.