This is one of Kim's
studio walls. The two plates with portraits are smog catchers, made
by placing a stencil over the plate and leaving it out on her downtown
LA roof until enough pollution sticks to it so that the image is visible.
In this case, the portraits are of presidents, and she would leave
it out depending on what their environmental record was like. Environmentalist
presidents were barely outside at all and are very light. That dark
one there is of Ronald Reagan, who was left out for days and days.
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