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a large grid of balloons, most of which are grey but with a line of green, then orange balloons in a horizontal dropping line.

Backslide

Mixed-media sculpture

10' x 26' x 1'

2026

This sculpture remixes the language of county fair games with graphed indices of democratic health—in this case, of the United States from 2006 to 2024. According to Nancy Bermeo, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford University, a "Democratic Backslide” is 'the state-led debilitation or elimination of the political institutions sustaining an existing democracy.”