Box #10

Lucas Samaras

1963 · Mixed Media · Modern and Contemporary Art

To create this work Samaras adapted a Victorian jewelry box, covering it with yarn, pins, and brass springs: "I think I was interested in the idea that when something became useless I could rescue it and give it a dignity it never had." He embedded two photographs of himself inside the lid of the box and a third beneath the pestle resting on polished rocks. A mangled fork lies atop tiny ball bearings and a plastic "L" for Lucas sits on a bed of Duco Cement caps.

Artist

Lucas Samaras

Date

1963

Medium

Mixed Media

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Gift of the artist, 2014