Snowflakes

Joshua Prince

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Snowflakes

Joshua Prince

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Snowflakes

Joshua Prince

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Snowflakes, 2025. Stone lithography, aluminum, plexiglass, hardware, and shredded laser printer paper. 96 x 36 x 72 in. Photographed at Parsons The New School Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery (credit: Kevin Sparkowich).

Year

2024

Medium

Installation

Materials

Stone lithography, aluminum, plexiglass, hardware, and shredded laser printer paper.

Dimensions

96 x 36 x 72 in.

An installation imagining a frozen moment in time shredding the numerous documents that detailed the secret planning and thoughts during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Snowflakes is a jab at former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's notorious snowflake memos; now available for public consumption thanks to the reporting by the Washington Post. The installation imagines a frozen moment in time shredding the numerous documents that detailed the secret planning and thoughts during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. It pokes fun at Rumsfeld’s so-called torrent of memorandum writing, while also simultaneously questioning how so much work could accomplish so little substance.

Snowflakes, 2025. Stone lithography, aluminum, plexiglass, hardware, and shredded laser printer paper. 96 x 36 x 72 in. Photographed at Parsons The New School Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery (credit: Kevin Sparkowich).

Detail of the lithograph from Snowflakes, 2025. Stone lithography, aluminum, plexiglass, hardware, and shredded laser printer paper. 96 x 36 x 72 in.

Copyright: Joshua Prince