HNH 1978: School Watches

2004, Inkject print, cardboard, altered plastic watches
10 x 3-1/2 x 1/4 inches

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The 1978 Humanitarians Not Heroes edition is a set of five multi-colored plastic toy watches made for kids. The time on the watch faces reads three seconds before two o'clock. Whether it is imminent noon or midnight is not determined.

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Children continue to play while elsewhere in the world the production of Volkswagen Beetlescomes to a halt. Nine hundred people drink Kool-Aid laced with cyanide in Jonestown, Guyana at the same time that the first test tube baby is born in England to Lesley Brown.

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To the kids!