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James Leonard - Full image of the installation, Untitled (Meditations on Finance), including paintings, a white door, and a pile of corn cobs
James Leonard - Detail of Untitled (Meditations on Finance) depicting a drawing of a corn stalk and the words: I had power, till someone told me I didn't
James Leonard - Detail of a pile of dirt and corn cobs on a gallery floor, as part of Untitled (Meditations on Finance)
James Leonard - Full image of the installation, Untitled (Meditations on Finance), including paintings, a white door, and a pile of corn cobs
James Leonard - Detail of Untitled (Meditations on Finance) depicting a drawing of a corn stalk and the words: I had power, till someone told me I didn't
James Leonard - Detail of a pile of dirt and corn cobs on a gallery floor, as part of Untitled (Meditations on Finance)

Untitled (Meditations on Finance)

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1995 
Corn, corn stalk, soil, paint, charcoal, corn starch, paper, gold leaf, door
Installation dimensions variable

An old wooden door, splashed with paint, leans against the wall. Text scrawled in charcoal reads, “I had power until someone told me I didn’t.” A dried corn stalk stands in a pile of soil, sprinkled with a spill of powdered corn starch. Behind this, a drawing on butcher paper pinned to the wall depicts another stalk ripe with an ear of corn. The corn kernels are gilded.


Littering the floor in front of this tableau are several bushels of sweet corn, which have been masticated, broken, and abused.