Matthew Roth  T

Title: 71-Foot Cardboard Fence

Medium: Cardboard and Elmer's glue

Location: 61 Pelham Road, Amherst, MA

Everything is endowed with the guarantee of its own eventual unmaking. Instead of conceiving of art with the assumption of permanence, my art is designed to embrace impermanence-designed to facilitate its own unmaking. 71 Foot Cardboard Fence documents the unmaking of a picket fence made entirely of cardboard and Elmer's glue. The fence was installed in my front lawn alongside a busy road and sidewalk last November. The documentation consists of a few hundred photographs of the fence unmaking over the course of 90 days as well as a 37-minute video.

Matthew Roth is a 22 year old boy-he make art sometimes. He has lived in Amherst, MA for a while.