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This Large Standing Robin with a red breast is a very rare example of a work that was not often produced.

A few years ago I applied to Fractured Atlas for fiscal sponsorship for Andersen Design, as a social enterprise. The remote board rejected my application for using the word “production”. The board deemed production to mean ”being only in it for the money, reducing the description I wrote about the innovative approach Andersen Design took to production to one word, given a singular meaning with no room for individuation. There is no appeal and no direct interaction between the applicant and the gatekeepers of access to non-profit wealth redistribution,

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The fact that the word “production” was cited as cause for rejection speaks volumes about their reasons.

At the same time my application was rejected for use of the word “production”, Adam Huttler, the founder of Fractured Atlas, was starting a venture capitalist corporation Exponential Creativity Ventures in partnership with the Head of Sale for Andy Warhol at Christie’s, overseeing Christie’s partnership…