Partied Out
By <a href="https://axisweb.org/artist/helengrant-1"
title="Helen Grant"
class="inline font-bold underline transition-opacity duration-100 hover:opacity-50 focus:opacity-50">
Helen Grant
</a>
2024
Partied Out comprises thirteen red pendants stapled to rough wooden battens, standing in a painted galvanised dustbin.
The colour red is associated with both passion and danger and, in contemporary parlance, red flags refer to behaviours or traits that should rule out a prospective partner.
Historically the symbol of anarchists and socialists, 'bloody' red flags were also used by pirates to denote a fight to the death. In this instance they've been binned, hence whatever they represented is discarded.
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