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The Washhouse, Nothing Ever Happened Here<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this body of work Vote depicts and reproduces parts of a real-life aging washhouse, an outbuilding in which people once used to wash their belongings, in rural Iowa at near life size.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Evidence, Tarot <\/b><\/i>, 2020
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Grass<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

BY CARL SANDBURG<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shovel them under and let me work\u2014 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                          I am the grass; I cover all. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 And pile them high at Gettysburg <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shovel them under and let me work. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor: <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                          What place is this? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                          Where are we now? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                          I am the grass. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                                          Let me work.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Skeleton,<\/b><\/i> 2020
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Summer,<\/b><\/i> 2016\/2018
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In Memory of Susan B., <\/b><\/i> 2020
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Install view, Susan B,<\/b><\/i> 2018
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Stain, Overalls, <\/i><\/b>2020
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Review by John Mendelsohn in DART International Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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