Looking for a Good Place to Live

Max Heldman

1971

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A black and white photograph featuring a close-up view of building corners. The buildings appear as white and light gray colored geometric shapes against a back quadrilateral background.
Cole created this monumental print by embedding the perforated surface of an ironing board and twelve iron faceplates into a plywood sheet, flush to its surface. He then applied black ink to the whole and transferred the resulting image onto a sheet of white kozo-shi paper. The silhouetted image of the ironing board's surface resembles a historic slave-ship diagram, and the faceplate designs recall the facial scarification patterns worn by some tribal Africans.
A large vertical painting on canvas, primarily black, with irregular lines of various colors (violet, crimson, gray) that run horizontally across its surface. A band of approximately 1-½ inches runs top-to-bottom along the left vertical edge of the canvas, revealing a gray painted ground beneath the aforementioned surface. The painting is unframed.
Bust of Bear Bryant.