Scabby
2017
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York City
Object (Completed)
A souvenir celebrating the union protest rat, Scabby, as an alternative symbol for New York.
2017
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York City
Object (Completed)
A souvenir celebrating the union protest rat, Scabby, as an alternative symbol for New York.
We chose Scabby as a symbol whose effects register both aesthetic—the figure is immediately recognizable and grotesque—and social—coded both as an image of labor conditions and their place within urban development and change. Displayed at the Storefront for Art and Architecture’s Souvenirs: New New York Icons exhibition.