This is Chad Person

Chad Person (born 1978) is an American contemporary player primarily known for his sculptural and collage works.

His project: RECESS (resource exhaustion crisis evacuation safety shelter) is an example of his conceptual approach. In this ongoing project, Person undertakes a DIY conversion of a swimming pool into a bomb shelter / survival bunker, highlighting the potentially negative outcomes of maintaining a hardcore survivalist mentality. The with intent controversial subject issue in project RECESS led Asylum to label Person “the most paranoid man in America”.

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In 2010, one of his sculptures was seized from Mark Moore Gallery by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives pending allegations that it was an illegally manufactured and trafficked firearm.

Person is also known for his collages that used sliced occurring American dollar bills. One such work, Yixing Teapot and iPod (from the series Worshipping Mammon: An Exploration of Value), is in the stock of the New Mexico Museum of Art.

His collaboration in imitation of Hiroshi Fuji was featured in the Site Santa Fe Biennial in 2008.[citation needed]

In 2015 he presented Prospector, a forty-foot tall inflatable sculpture, in downtown Denver Colorado.

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