Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Chromogenic development print and Diasec
70 x 103 in. (177.8 x 261.6 cm)
Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Restricted gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sanfred Koltun.
2001.5

In this photograph, the scene is a life-size model, meticulously crafted by the artist out of paper and colored cardboard, which he photographed and then destroyed. Demand painstakingly re-created the site of a Florida voting headquarters in the wake of the 2000 presidential election. Flashlights stand ready to illuminate partially punctured ballots, but the ballots are all unmarked: there is nothing to be read. The artist is often inspired by images found in newspapers and books that depict historically important events or people.