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Cream NOBODY CHOOSES sits above enormous tan TAN. A battered tan sedan has a black garbage bag taped over a rear side window.

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Louis C.K.: 2017

Spoken by Louis C.K.

Louis C.K.: 2017 — Tan car with garbage-bag window

“NOBODY CHOOSES TAN.”

Battered sedan

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The artwork

In Louis C.K.: 2017, Louis C.K. describes a battered tan car as something that happens to its owner rather than a colour they deliberately choose.

The scene

Louis C.K.: 2017 — Tan car with garbage-bag window

Louis observes a battered tan car with a garbage bag taped over a broken window. He imagines accumulated troubles: cancelled insurance, a broken window and the improvised repair. He argues the colour was assigned rather than chosen. The surrounding dark passage concerns people's persistence through miserable lives; the selected line targets involuntary, defeated ownership.

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Print dimensions
16 × 24 in
Finish
Unframed print
Paper
Enhanced matte paper
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