The General Store, ©2002
Mixed Media Installation
acrylic, post-consumer Styrofoam etc.
The installation depicts a store with no walls but with seemingly sweet windows, suspended from the ceiling, with glimpses of goods within the stacks of crates made from recycled materials. Such recreations of everyday items are treated as icons that connotate daily life and comfort. Yet within the space, Pollack juxtaposes the quaint, white-washed windows and commonplace goods with the jarring language of advertising, questioning where the world of the general store has gone.
