This was an installation for a collaborative exhibit at Centre Gallery in Tampa, Florida, 
in the Winter of 1998. Charming handmade "rolling paper" packets containing 3 images and 3 
poems, and 34 additional poems stuffed inside fortune cookies and repackaged in cellophane 
were placed inside 2 separate bowls. Viewers were allowed to freely take the "artwork." An 
exercise in the temporary liberation of the work of art as retail commodity.

      

   

      
  
TRONG NGUYEN and SUSAN THOMAS
34 Times Roman
      

      
 

      

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