disobedient objects at the v. and a.

tiki love truck of 2007, designed by carrie reichardt and thayen rich and then somewhat oddly used as a protest against the death penalty in america by being driven through various european cities. the death mask of an ex-con on the front by nick reynolds and the concept seem to have been after thoughts. I checked the trial out, and the executed guy shown seems an odd choice of hero. the state should not kill without extreme need, but this man was no better, killing a taxi driver for no obvious reason and without provocation, and forcing his girlfriend to shoot someone too. he may have been only 18 at the time, and claimed to have been abused as a kid, but that's no reason to murder random strangers and no explanation for his posthumous sanctification as wronged victim of the state. there seems a gulf between the artwork and idea, one well done , the other half baked.