As long as I can work here I will. It's better than housework. Cauliflower packing is hard work but I don't even think about it. My hands go through the motions, my mind's somewhere else. The season lasts six months, then I pack tomatoes and collect unemployment for the rest of the year., from the series "Working"

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Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by B…
As long as I can work here I will. It's better than housework. Cauliflower packing is hard work but I don't even think about it. My hands go through the motions, my mind's somewhere else. The season lasts six months, then I pack tomatoes and collect unemployment for the rest of the year., from the series "Working"
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by Bryan Edwards, Class of 2019. For educational purposes only.
Artist/Maker (American, born 1938)
Date1975 (printed later)
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsSheet: 7 7/8 × 9 7/8 in. (20 × 25.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2018.12.84
Not on view
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Provenance 2018: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling.
Markings Stamp: "[copyright symbol] BILL OWENS / EXTRA BOOK PRINT]" on verso at lower right in black ink.
Published References Illustrated in Bill Owens, Working: I Do It For The Money (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977), pl. 138.
Signature Signed "Bill Owens" on verso at lower right in pencil.
Inscribed "0995M 2000" on verso at upper left in pencil; "W138X" on verso at lower right in pencil.
© Jeffrey Gibson. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clint…
Jeffrey Gibson
Date: 2018
Medium: Single-channel video
Object number: 2018.6