Willy Wong - "Five-masted for your Pleasure, #25"
Item Number: 26086
Category: Arts and Crafts
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Willy Wong
Description
14" x 12" Framed. Mixed-media paper.
Mixed-media collage featuring five US one-dollar bills and one twenty-dollar bill folded into a five-masted schooner, a hand-drawn and blind-debossed town seal on cardstock, antique paper ephemera, and felt. An 1888 article in The New York Times reported that the Governor Ames cost about $80,000 to build (roughly $2.8 million today). The $25 folded into a ship here represents nearly two weeks' wages for a ship carpenter in Waldoboro in 1888.
Willy is a multidisciplinary designer whose work explores stories embedded in objects, places, public memory, and imagination. He holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MFA from the Yale School of Art.
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