Archival digital prints, front-mounted to Plexiglas, 2007
Shell’s collaborative project Happy Endings uses images from final scenes of movies, with the last lines of dialogue determining the titles. The artists asked friends to suggest the films that would be used, allowing for multiple interpretations of the idea of happiness. Titles from left to right, top down:
God you weigh a lot.
Oh, shut your face.
Atmospheric pressure
999 milibars.
Always time to
dream, so keep on dreamin’.
You got your cookie
here, all right?
Aren’t you
going to kiss your grandmother?
Go and love some
more.
Now. Yes, now.
Baby, you are gonna
miss that plane.
…Reuben!
I just got a $900
bill on my gas card.
Fire! Fire!
Ouch. Ouch. I’ll
be right here. Bye.