Duchampian Sliding Screens Salesman Sample (or Moire Pattern Making Machine) 1940s shuttlecocks is a slide opening

is a slide opening

ebonized wood backs

1 5/8" w x 1 3/8" t x 1 5/16" w and in very good condition

The drawing is in great shape

they are traditionally used in initiations of young monks or during ceremonies as a visualization aid to invoke a deity or divinity or simply as a representation of the object of the offering ritual

Duchampian Sliding Screens Salesman Sample (or Moire Pattern Making Machine) 1940s shuttlecocks is a slide openingAnother example of a thing made for one purpose, but which, recontextualized, feels quite like an artwork, this one feeling very Duchampian to me, including for his ongoing interest in thresholds and portals (doors, windows, peepholes, glass, etc..) I believe it was made as a salesman sample for sliding screens, here with three screens, each with handles for sliding them in one direction or the other. They can all be slid, one by one, to one side or