Westinghouse
Refrigerator
Project



In the Fall of 2010, johnson was wandering and musing down by the Pearl River when he stumbled up a 1949 Deluxe model Westinghouse Refrigerator lying on its back in the sun. Feeling the meeting auspicious, johnson captured and picture and hung it up in his studio. After a few weeks, daniel realized he needed more people to view this object with him and thus, the Westinghouse Refrigerator Project was born. After standing it up and creating a FaceBook page for the appliance, others began to visit and bring the refrigerator items found nearby.


truly a vision to behold, a refrigerator basking in the sun how it actually appeared a FaceBook page to invite an visitor visitors left their marks bringing natural items and found objects the Pearl River is a massive tri-county watershed bringing debris from many different communities visitors arranged and rearranged, telling stories and drawing associations visitors posted their own images to its FaceBook everyone always remained anonymous
As a tri-county watershed, the Westinghouse became a shadowbox for these community and natural objects constantly arranged and rearranged by passersby. Ultimately johnson created sticker and stencil projects to further reflect on the experience and brought the refrigerator to a gallery for an exhibition.

looking through the fridge into the kitchen at The Pizza Shack fridge holds sky the refrigerator was painted on both sides made some stickers time to remove this refrigerator from the watershed in repose portals manual made from original 1949 user manual and Ag Department Pearl River publication


daniel@significantdevelopments.us — Jackson, Mississippi
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