Complete Security
(“Trespassing”)

1992

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The image depicts a burnt-out baby stroller. The seat has been formed of twisted metal, blackened by fire. The wheels are crooked and the stroller would be difficult to roll or steer, especially since it’s precariously balanced on a section of broken pavement, the pieces of which careen at crazy angles. On the wall to the right is a picture of a baby in a frilly white dress, contained within a heavy antique frame. The picture is blown up from a magazine advertisement featuring the artist at the age of two. The caption begins, “There’s a tear on her pretty cheek....” Inset into the wall behind the carriage, we see two video monitors endlessly looping the stroller in flames leaping up from the fractured sidewalk below. The video scene in each monitor duplicates the installation itself.

© Alison Ulman 2001