The two sculptures comprising Transition of Power (From Hope to Highrise Demagogy) are extruded favicons for political campaigns. A favicon (“favorite icon”) is a 16-pixel by 16-pixel logo that appears alongside the URL or inside the tab in most browsers.  Here, a block of wood represents each pixel of the favicon, with the height of that block determined by the pixel’s color’s luminance (perceived brightness). The darker the color of the pixel, the taller the block of wood.  The piece is made up of two sculptures:  one is the favicon for the Obama campaign in 2008 while the other is for the Trump campaign in 2016.  The Obama favicon was built in 2008 as part of Building a Better America (Two Plans).

The Trump favicon pictured in front of Proposed Design for a New Presidential Emblem at the Blocks exhibition in March of 2017.

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Installation view of Obama’s Last Night in Office (left, 2017) and Biden’s First Day in Office (right, 2022):

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This webpage was designed and built specifically for that fair, and the voting mechanism was deactivated after the fair’s conclusion. Perhaps not surprisingly, the majority of fair patrons who were willing to participate voted for Barack Obama over Republican Mitt Romney.

You can view the archived web page using the link below, and then visit here to see some of the other design collateral I created for the booth.

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Candidate stickers, each 4″ x 3″, handed out during the 2012 Texas Contemporary Art Fair.

Placard design for booth at Texas Contemporary Art Fair, printed and mounted to foam board, 11″ x 17″.

Unprinted Championship banner design.

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