Four hand-painted wooden boomerangs of the avant-garde band The Residents
Suncook, NH: [No publisher], 1997.
Four wooden boomerangs, designed and painted by Patrick Cardiff for the 25th Anniversary of the mercurial, avant-garde, anonymous band/art collective The Residents. Each states "Made by Request Residents 25th Anniversary," measuring approximately 17" x 17". Painted on one side with information written in red marker on the verso. They came from the estate of the late Hardy Fox, a founding member of The Residents. Essentially Fine, bright and unfaded with hardly any appreciable wear. Fully functional flight-tested boomerangs, according to their maker in a holograph letter included with the boomerangs.
Boomerang collectors and lovers of the disarming, often dark postmodern style of The Residents can at last find common ground with these four pieces of original art, and finally put aside their numerous epistemological differences and history of often-violent squabbling. Like The Residents's body of work, these boomerangs are semi-familiar objects transformed into something definitely not pretty but singular and compelling nonetheless. They'll always come back around to you, if you don't get to them first.
Price: $1,250