Geoffrey Hendricks | All American Flux Safety Matches

Geoffrey Hendricks

All American Flux Safety Matches

New York City, USA: Self-published, 1973

6 x 3.8 x 1.7 cm. (matchbox), 7.5 x 6 x 2.2 cm. (plastic box)

Edition size unknown

A found box of matches, with the matches burnt, to which the artist has added the word “Flux” on the front and his name and “1973” on the verso, both in white dry transfer text. 

Using the same Canal Street surplus store plastic boxes that Maciunas used for Fluxus publications, but without a title graphic. 

The edition size is unknown, but two copies appear in the The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection now housed at MoMA, and both the Jean Brown and Fransceco Conz archives include the work. Additionally, a copy was sold at auction four years ago.