Juju Stick
2005
Mixed media (electronics, wood)
34 1/2" x 1 3/4" x 2"


see The Afro Asian Action Figure Meets the Juju Stick


Juju Stick (detail)

To make guesses as to how objects of millennial debris might be interpreted by future civilizations, Woodard dismantled a toy drum machine and attached the working parts to a piece of weathered machined wood. "Juju Stick" can be imagined in the hands of the Nganga, or tribal spiritualist, exhorting devotees to worship through song and dance, as they express longing for a legendary past

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Juju Stick