Ten self-contained button pins designed, printed and manufactured by the artist on her hand-operated button pin machine.

The medium is not the message. Commonly worn to publicly announced political opinion, here these button pins are provocatively used to voice inner personal thoughts silently shared by many. Theme: Art + Artist, Art + Life, Public + Private, Existentialism, Identity, Communication, Language.

Includes one page of commentary and nine “Button Pin Pages”: YOU GO FIRST (2006); BRAIN SCAN TR 9002 (2005); NOT MYSELF (2004); LEND / GIVE (2004); DUST TO DUST (2004); MONEY = HONEY (2002); PRIVATE EYE (1998); I’VE GOT THE WORLD IN THE PALM OF MY HAND (1986/2006); NICE (1983).