A hand-made set of 12 wearable lucite pins into which are slid 24 reversible brief idioms in several fonts. Multiple implications about vision, sound, communication, and understanding momentarily arrest the viewer, releasing the laughter of speechless, absurdist anxiety. Each phrase provokes a need to quickly respond, but the double meanings jumping around the space between the viewer, the wearer and the pin make the easy reply impossible. Like all Rosenthal’s work in text, wall hun, camera-based, performance, apparel, and video, alone or in combination, this piece brings the viewer into their own “frame of mind.”

Includes: “Yes”, “I follow you”, “I hear you”, “We’ll see”, “Well I’ll be”, “MY, MY”, I’LL SEE", “You said it”, “LET ME SEE”, “You don’t say”, “WHICH IS WHICH”, “What Gives, What d'ya know”, “Why not”, “HOW ABOUT THAT”, “SAY WHAT”, “How should I put this, "What else”.