September 29, 2008
Sarah Palin photo booth features dead caribou
If you missed the vice presidential hopeful as she blew through New York City last week, you’ve still got a chance to get your picture taken with her in a more natural setting. “Photo Op with Sarah Palin” by Brooklyn artist Dawn Robyn Petrlik allows you to suit up in a faux-fur vest and prop rifle and snuggle up in the snow amid Palin, her daughter and a shot-dead caribou affectionately named “Petunia”
You can also walk away with some free free “kill, baby, kill” stickers.
Petrlik said she got the idea for the installation after she saw a picture in the newspaper of Palin posing with her daughter next to a dead caribou.
“The disparity I find between her pro-life stance and their enjoyment of killing wildlife is something I find disturbing” Petrlik said in an interview with NewYorkology on Saturday. “I’m not against all hunting, but glorifying it is just gross.”
 There’s a price tag on “Photo Op with Sarah Palin.” It’s $12,500.
“I put a price on it in case it pissed someone off enough, they could buy it and take it down,” Petrlik said. But as it turns out, even Palin fans like it as they’ve been among the hundreds who have had their picture taken in the photo booth since the exhibition opened September 13. But unlike some of the picture-takers, the Palin supporters aren’t posing with a rifle pointed at the Alaskan hunter.
Petrlik’s past credits include scenic designer for the Rockette’s “Radio City Christmas Spectacular,” but her last installation for BWAC, “The lonely death of Esmin Green,” dramatized the June 19 death of an uninsured woman on a Brooklyn hospital waiting room floor after she was denied care there for 24 hours.
“Photo Op with Sarah Palin” is showing at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Red Hook show, weekends only through October 26. The BWAC space is at 499 Van Brunt St., map.
September 29, 2008 7:48 AM in Cheap Stuff, Out of Manhattan, Sightsology
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