Wood Paper Plate
Paper with plastic coating
1997
Stolen from a pie stand at the Erie County Fair
One of the cornerstones of the Museum of the Double, this paper plate is what it pretends to be. The design team must have thought to themselves: Hey, paper comes from wood, people often forget that. Lets make a paper plate that is, besides being funny looking, autobiographical. While an entire book could be written on the history of fake wood surfaces, we should note some of key moments: Rococo and Surrealist painting, the 70s (when everyone painted over their real hard wood to look like fake wood), and the 90s, with the proliferation of particle board.
