Mike Estabrook
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Standing Army

Installation, 2007-8
Standing Army, HQ Gallery, Brooklyn, 2007
Standing Army, HQ Gallery, 2007
Standing Army, Flood Gallery, Asheville, NC, 2008
The March, Brooklyn, 2007
The March, Brooklyn, 2007

The Standing Army is an installation of 50 life-sized cardboard figures. Made from from scavenged cardboard, each one is based on poses taken from army recruiting pamphlets. The core inspiration is Qin Shi Huang's ancient terracotta army from Xi'an China. In order to get them from my Bushwick studio to the Williamsburg gallery, I and 40 friends marched them through Brooklyn.

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