1
COLGATE
2019-2020
OLD TOOTHBRUSH
Hardened toothpaste and faint blood
7 1/2 by 1/2 in.
Estimate 
.14 cents-.22 cents
USA
LOT SOLD PASS
(Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Dr. Zeffo’s office, 57th street, New York, New York, 2019
Description
Stan acquired the toothbrush in 2019. The blue pattern is typical of this period of toothbrushes. He came home from the dentist with one of those little blue goodie bags, also containing oral rinse for sores. He hadn’t been to the dentist for five years and had no cavities and a mouth full of sores. For two months beforehand, he’d stopped brushing his teeth with me at night. I thought he was ashamed. But even afterward, when the only residue in the sink was frothy toothpaste, Stan kept the door closed. I got him a new toothbrush eventually—the handle of the old one was caked with spitty blood (see Lot 31, NEW TOOTHBRUSH). He never got around to using it.
Exhibited
Chicago, Illinois, Best Western Bathroom Sink, 2019
New York, New York Facebook Picture no.
10151628317594155.1073741825.61560924, 2019, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Bathroom Sink, Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, 2019-2020
2
UNKNOWN MENUISIER
Late Twentieth Century, American
CHAIR FROM STREET
Wood, leather, and mold
35 by 35 in.
Estimate
30 dollars-50 dollars
USA
LOT SOLD 26 dollars
(Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Street Corner, Gowanus, Brooklyn, 2013
Description
This piece was acquired by Stan and his ex. They found it near the Gowanus Canal. It has a decent size and a crack in the leather cushion. Most likely, they are the only ones who ever had sex on it. Any bedbugs are supposedly long-gone. I have sat in it three times. The first was out of drunkenness. The second was when we moved to Park Slope and Stan made me sit in the back of the truck with all the clattering since he had done most of the lifting. It’s a heavy chair. I don’t know how his ex was able to carry half of it for nine long blocks. He is so dancy. Stan left the chair behind when he moved out to move in with the very same lean, dancy man. The third time I sat in it, all I was trying to do was get my magazine out of the wastebasket.
Exhibited
Street Corner, Gowanus, Brooklyn, 2013
Living Room, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, New York, 2013-2018
Living Room, Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, 2019-2020
3
IKEA
2014
WASTEBASKET
Flimsy Metal
9 7/8 by 11 3/4 in.
Estimate
Six dollars
USA
LOT SOLD PASS
(Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
IKEA, New York, New York, 2014
Description
Stan always threw things away when he was done, even if I might still want them—half eaten desserts, magazines, paperback novels. I saw my Wired curled in the lot, not remotely where it should have been, so I reached for it. That’s all. When I opened the Wired, there it was—wedged between pages like a bookmark.
Exhibited
On my side of the bed, closer to the door, Brooklyn, New York, 2020
Kicked over onto the ground, contents spilled out, Brooklyn, New York, 2020
4
STAN
2018-2020
LOVE LETTERS
Printer Paper
18.8 by 13.4 by 4.2 inches
Estimate
LOT WITHDRAWN
USA
LOT WITHDRAWN
Provenance
Stan when he still loved me, 2018-?
Description
No, actually, I don’t want to sell these. I don’t care. I know I should get rid of them, should stop reading them. I know. But I’m not going to do it.
Exhibited
Back and forth between wastebasket (see lot 3, WASTEBASKET) and my bedside table, Brooklyn, 2020
5
SONY
2020
PlayStation 5 + maybe some games?
Electronic
18.8 by 13.4 by 4.2 inches
Estimate
.1 cent
USA
LOT SOLD 400 dollars
(Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Gamestop, Brooklyn, New York, 2020
Description
He was so excited when he preordered the PlayStation 5. I’m surprised that he didn’t think to change the mailing address. I’ve been waiting for him to get in touch with me about it, to claim it for himself, and the worst thing is that I still want him to. I haven’t opened the box or anything. I think there’s some games in it too? When I shake it, it rattles. I don’t want it, even though I read online that it plays Blu-Ray and he left behind a few Criterion Collection discs that I’ve been meaning to watch.
Exhibited
Various “casual spots” around my apartment, Brooklyn, New York, 2020
6
TROJAN
2020
Condom Wrapper
Foil
2.1 by 2.1 in
Estimate
.1 cent
USA
LOT SOLD PASS
(Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
Bottom of bedroom wastebasket, Brooklyn, New York, 2020
Description
I don’t know what the worst part is: that it was with him; that it was in our bed, the one we bought together at Ikea and built together while we kissed over the main beam; that I had made the bed with my childhood sheets; that he didn’t even care enough to really try to hide the wrapper; that it was inside my Wired; that he could rarely get it up for me for months and that I thought it had something to do with him; that when I showed the lot to him he said, “oh that” and didn’t look surprised; that I didn’t even work up the capacity to kick him out that night; that he slept on the moldy chair so cozily; that I lay awake thinking that he was considerate for leaving the condom, since at least he wasn’t risking my health; that in the morning he was gone; that I haven’t even seen him since; that I have to move, sell the bed, and get rid of my childhood sheets. That it was with him.
Exhibited
On floor of bedroom, Brooklyn, New York, 2020
Bottom of bedroom wastebasket, Brooklyn, New York, 2020
In my shaking hand, Brooklyn, New York, 2020
7
TIME
2016-2020
FOUR AND A HALF YEARS
Me
63 by 28 in
Estimate
?
USA
LOT SOLD PASS
(Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
A bar in 2016: a tall man came up to me and asked what I was reading, and how I wanted to kiss him.
Description
I stopped seeing my friends as much when I was with him. I rarely ate alone. I read less and I watched fewer movies. I stopped going to the gym as much. I stopped biking. I don’t know that my body will so easily change way back, or my mind. I worry that I’ll look back and think that he had the best version of me.
Exhibited
Everywhere I was, everywhere I wrote, everything I thought, everyone else I could have loved, 2016-2020
With Stan, 2016–2020
