12 clear, 20″ diameter, plexiglass domes filled with wrapped fortune cookies are placed in a circle on the gallery floor. A randomly generated date from the next 100 years is positioned next to each dome in white vinyl lettering. The dates are arranged in ascending order, in a clockwise direction.
A video projector projects a large-scale image onto a blank wall. White text on a black background scrolls ceaselessly upwards. Seemingly random questions are posed with a choice of six answers to choose from, labelled A-F. The questions are not numbered, but there are 250 of them in total. The questions themselves range from reasonably straight-forward (Which of the following authors do you prefer?) to somewhat non-sensical (What is your favourite dental hygiene tool?). They directly refer to the questionnaires found in books and magazines which attempt to diagnose and resolve personality issues, relationship problems, etc.
A group of hand-made, life-size stuffed animals sit in a circle, facing inwards. Each animal is wearing a pair of bunny ears and a bunny tail
11 life-size, hand-sewn bears dressed in camouflage fleece outfits sit inside a large tent pitched in the gallery space. They are watching television, specifically the local PBS broadcast. Monitors in the gallery space detail the TV schedule for the duration of the show. Brown astroturf covers the floor. The gallery space is painted in two shades of green to match the tent. A lone bear dressed in two-tone green sits behind the tent, camouflaged to both the tent and the walls.
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