Picket Fence
Artist: Fabienne Radi
Artists’ notepad, Softcover
42 Pages, 28.9 × 20.4 cm
First Edition 2008
ISBN 978-2-940409-09-9
Reprint in the paperbacks series fink twice
The complete series of Boabooks artists' notepads
edition fink, Contemporary Art Publishers, Zurich
ISBN 978-3-03746-505-9
www.editionfink.ch
As an ultimate defence wall for Yankee domesticity, the picket fence has been an abundantly recurring pattern in cinema and TV series. Its major purpose is to symbolise all the innocence of the American Dream, which is inevitably bound to be sooner or later contaminated by the perversity of ill-intentioned elements, from Indians to tornadoes, to uncontrollable cars, psycho neighbours, unleashed dinosaurs and even the odd ear left on the lawn, depending on the time and genre. To be continued…