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ebaybies, genuine and lasting friends

ebaybie catalog by Nanette Wylde

Created by: Nanette Wylde

The ebaybies adoption catalog is a component of the larger ebaybies: Genuine & Lasting Friends conceptual print project.

ebaybies are intaglio prints. There are 30 different ebaybies.

Media: Toner print interior, archival pigment print cover
Pages: 36
Size: 8.5 x 5.5″ (27 x 14 cm)
Year: 2004
Price: $45

Individual ebaybie prints are still available for adoption. A complete set of ebaybies is available housed in a custom drop box portfolio.

Visit the ebaybie webpage.
Purchase the ebaybie adoption catalog.
Inquire about ebaybie prints.

ebaybie Project Conceptual Statement
ebaybies are selected from abandoned, up-for-auction darlings. Their net value at any given moment is based not only on their physical condition and the near extinction of their type, but also on the current state of the market and the economic conditions of both the seller and potential buyers.

I scour the Internet’s online auction sites for potential ebaybies—dolls, often labeled ‘antique’ whose images are particularly embedded with traces of their history and service to humanity. Each ebaybie is transformed from auction photo to fine art print through a labor intense process involving an interchange of aesthetics, narrative play, concept, and technique. 

I scour the Internet’s online auction sites for potential ebaybies—dolls, often labeled ‘antique’ whose images are particularly embedded with traces of their history and service to humanity. Each ebaybie is transformed from auction photo to fine art print through a labor intense process involving an interchange of aesthetics, narrative play, concept, and technique.  

ebaybies transcend the auction block and the price of their heads to levels of adoration only previously imagined. Contrary to Walter Benjamin’s theory of “loss of aura” in the age of mechanical reproduction, ebaybies provide a genuine and lasting friendship.

ebaybie adoption counseling at WORKS San José.
ebaybies on exhibit with certificates of rescue.

Artist’s Books: Handmade
and change became
Compass
Corpus Animare
Foodies
From this Earth
helicopters
Hello Catty!
Knowledge
Marking Time
Over It
Pattern Recognition
Positioning
Spirit House
Reading 11.12.13
Redacted Babar: ABC Free
San Francisco Bay
Ten Amazing Human Inventions
The Circus
The Future
Unknowing

Artist’s Books: Trade editions
and change became
Assumptions:Performative Texts
CSI: Las Vegas
CSI: New York City
Diverse Paths, flip book
ebaybies, genuine & lasting friends
Election Countdown 2020
From this Earth
Gray Matter Gardening
Swirl
Thomas from Delaware

Artist Monographs
José Arenas
Diane Cassidy
Kent Manske
Ruth Tunstall Grant

Curation/Catalogs/Histories
Conceptually Bound
Earth Science Art
Entanglements
Pathways Exhibition
Roots and Offshoots
You are the Tree

Artist Interviews
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