Emergency Tree: SAD, Mel Watkin

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Mel Watkin, artist
born 1954
Emergency Tree: SAD, 2011
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: prescription pill bottle; laser jet print
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 159 x 96 mm booklet
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in
Object Height/Diameter (Height x Diameter): 100 x 55 mm bottle
Object Height/Diameter (Height x Diameter): 3 15/16 x 2 3/16 in
Credit line: Gift of Saralyn Reece Hardy, courtesy of the artist
Accession number: 2011.0043
Not on display

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Brosseau Center for Learning: Disability Visibility: In Conversation with the 2022–2023 KU Common Book

This small artists' book unfolds from a pill bottle to show the seemingly death-to-life cycle of trees. Intended to “fulfill all your emergency tree needs,” the piece was “prescribed” to Saralyn Reece Hardy, who donated it to the Spencer.

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