Two Cabinets

Two closed, beige filing cabinets stacked on top of each other, slightly off-center. Small pieces of torn and crumpled paper pile up on top and around the bottom. The fronts of the filing cabinets are blank. The slots for content cards are empty, but the top one is painted blue. The cabinets are turned sideways. The sides almost entirely painted, mostly in shades of blue-green, with small areas of yellow, pink and cream. Each has a large head painted on them.

The top cabinet’s head is painted white and faces forward. It has no hair or lips, but an open mouth revealing skeletal teeth and black inside. Only one eye is painted, solid pink. Black lines run perpendicular across the top of the head, creating a pattern of squares. Black lines are also drawn out from the face, connecting it to numerous small squares with text written on them. Some read “export”, but most read “import, export”. The mouth is connected to a larger green square in the lower left hand corner. A detached, pink tongue is painted on it. This square is also labeled “import, export” as well as “Tongue- intelligent, tasting” and “Think with the tongue”. Surrounding these squares are 3-D rendered boxes stacked in rows on the upper left and extending along the edges of the cabinet. Some of the boxes are torn pieces of paper pasted above the painted surface. In the upper right hand corner are two larger pieces of torn paper. The largest is solid blue. The other has part of a completed maze printed on it, as well as a dragon in the middle of the maze.

The bottom cabinet's head is facing right, and drawn in outline. Inside the top portion are numerous outlined squares connected by lines. Below this, extending down the neck, are 3-D rendered boxes. Column shapes separate each box as they go down. Along side this form the word “engulfment” is written repeatedly in a faint cursive script. Two yellow lines are painted out from the mass of squares. One ends above, and the other behind, the mouth. The teeth are drawn with their roots extending up and down. The single eye socket is drawn as a similar, but smaller, row of teeth, painted green. Two boxes beside this have the words “eye teeth eyeteeth” and “eat with the eyes” written on them. Outside of the face outline are large swaths painted green and blue. A purple line extends from the smaller green teeth connecting to four stacked squares. The top square is small and solid green. The middle two together have a smaller, frontal face with open mouth and exposed teeth. The bottom square is made of green graph paper with a pink brain painted over the top. Next to it is written “the mind the intellect reason”.