A Corrected Set of Facts

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The artist Stephen Sollins observing his artwork, A Corrected Set of Facts, in his studio. The work was made in response to the first impeachment of Donald Trump and features paper made from New York Times front pages displayed in found frames.

A Corrected Set of Facts was made in response to the first impeachment of Donald Trump. The sheets of handmade paper displayed here were cast in order from the shredded fragments of the series of front pages published by The New York Times during the Senate trial. As you will recall, he had been impeached in the House of Representatives a few weeks earlier but the Senate chose to vote against his conviction.

The cast paper sheets look like oatmeal, digested news, but there are fragments of text visible in the surface of many of them. The found frames, produced during various decades of the American experiment, are intrinsic to the work. They are a size and shape that might have held small portraits or mirror glass and were chosen to suggest a group of citizens past, citizens present, or perhaps both.

The title of the piece was taken from a tweet posted by Trump on the afternoon of January 6th 2021 ten minutes after the Capitol was breached by insurrectionists.

On Jan 6 2021 - 2:24:22 PM EST - Donald J. Trump @realdonaldtrump tweeted:

“Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”

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All Image Credits: Tom Powel Imaging

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