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To create Student's Desk, Hoak-Doering used a regular public school desk, known as a "thraneio" which students use while taking exams. These desks often bear heavy graffiti.
In her artist's statement, Hoak-Doering explains her choice of the desk: "I was interested in the idea that all desks are written upon as a matter of course; and often they are also graffitied upon. The scenario I set up in the Cyprus Pavilion is one where the written upon writes. I chose this desk out of many because some of the graffiti was funny. It read, for example, in Cypriot dialect Greek, "Evarethika" which means, "I'm bored"--and it was written not in Greek characters but in the shorthand kids use for text messaging."
MD, 2013
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