Wal Art examines human existence in a consumer driven corporate enterprise that Wal-Mart has come to embody.  Over time, trifocal projects has collectively developed a love/hate relationship with Wal-Mart.  On one level, as emerging artists with very little funding, they have found Wal-Mart to be an essential source for inexpensive materials and equipment.  On another level it is hard to ignore the fact that Wal-Mart thrives on driving small business out, exploiting its employees, and reflecting American Culture as shallow, self-serving and disposable.  In an effort to dissect this duality, trifocal projects' Wal Art is made entirely of objects purchased at Wal-Mart and addresses the group’s balance between utilizing Wal-Mart’s cheap prices, liberal return policy and their cultural criticism of an enterprise that has become a twenty first century American icon. 

Working within the terms of Wal-Mart's return policy, all items used in the installation were returned immediately after the exhibition.

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