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Jennifer McMackon, Rorschach Test Wall detail, arrangement of kleenex box covers with red and cream diptych
Jennifer McMackon, Untitled, Rorschach Test Wall detail, arrangement of kleenex box covers with red and cream diptych
acrylic on plexiglass, flocked chrome kleenex box covers
various dimensions
1992

This is a detail of a small untitled piece deriving from Personality Test Wall. The work continued a pedagogical interest in psychological tests, this time the ubiquitous Rorschach. This piece reflects a preoccupation with not quite symmetries that thwart interpretation.


From my artist statement at the time: “My works borrows the formal structure of “testing” from the arena of science. I am especially interested in psychological tests, the kinds that objectively try and measure subjective information. They seem most analogous to discourses on art… constrained by social and historical sediments and subject to immanent collapse”