Volume 3: I’m Never Coming Home
Barbara Weissberger / Eleanor Aldrich / Erin Belieu / Kelly Lorraine Hendrickson/ Carolyn Henne / Judy Rushin-Knopf
Release date: 2022
Edition of 10, $1500
I’m Never Coming Home, features artists Barbara Weissberger (Pittsburgh), Eleanor Aldrich (Knoxville), Kelly Hendrickson (Tallahassee), and poet, Erin Belieu (Houston). I’m Never Coming Home revolves around the idea of a “go box” and examines doomsday preppers as a cultural phenomenon and niche consumer market. Working with a genuine aim to understand rather than to deride, the six collaborators asked “what does it mean to survive a dystopia?” It was developed through a collaboration between Comma artists Judith Rushin and Carolyn Henne and this group of artists.
Each hand-crafted metal box contains eleven art objects including a beautiful chiffon scarf printed with a photo by Barbara Weissberger specifically made for this project, as well as her purple leather “Leathermann,” ceramic battery operated i-vibrator, and a full-sized, hand-dyed and sewn tarp/hazmat suit. Eleanor Aldrich contributed the silicon godseye, felted bag of pills, silicon toothbrush, ceramic gas mask, and the Leave2Live logo that seals an envelope containing a letter to the reader. Kelly Hendrickson contributed the ceramic shrimp, and Erin Belieu provided the poem, which we etched on fluorescent acrylic. Every object - including the box itself - is hand-crafted by Carolyn Henne and Judy Rushin, making each box unique.