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Amoebas Button

This is a Button. It was made by Steven Light. It is dated 1998 and we acquired it in 1998. Its medium is aluminum. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of William Hindley and Mrs. Paul Moore and from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund.

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Patent Drawing, Autonomous Seed Disperser, from Designing for the Sixth Extinction

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digital print with aluminum frame.
Courtesy of Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
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A magazine cover of cream-colored paper, featuring 'pm' in large translucent red letters over a black design of long, curving shapes. The 'p' sits in the top left corner, the italic 'm' tucked below and to the right, spanning the width of the page. The background shapes are filled with fine parallel black lines like wood grain. Long horizontal shapes occupy the upper and lower third; the middle third is shorted scrolled pieces. Short vertical pieces fill the right side. Some of the pieces are numbered, for example '20', '31'. Some pieces have small round holes at the ends; some have jagged ends, as if broken. 'herbert bayer' is printed in angular italics in the bottom right corner.

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letterpress on cream paper.
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Close-up of a front-facing, silver cuff-style bracelet on a neutral background. The bracelet has a smooth, dark surface, deeply oxidized, and is made of up a series of sensuous biomorphic shapes with sinuous lines which flow into one another. The left side of the bracelet features a series of bulbous, gourd-shaped forms which overlap and connect with the tip of a plump heart-shaped form lying on its side. The top of the heart flows into a pierced, rounded, amorphous shape on the right, through which short, hooked-shaped tentacles emerge, continuing the circlular shape of the bracelet. A rounded portion of the back part of the bracelet is partially visible behind the heart-shaped center.

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cast and oxidized silver, copper wire.
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Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 0.2 x 1.7 cm (1/16 x 11/16 in.)

Cite this object as

Amoebas Button; Made by Steven Light (b. 1970); USA; aluminum; H x diam.: 0.2 x 1.7 cm (1/16 x 11/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of William Hindley and Mrs. Paul Moore and from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund; 1998-58-11

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2DGbz/
Accession Number 1998-58-11
Object ID 18670813