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ebaybies, genuine and lasting friends

Created by: Nanette Wylde
Description: The ebaybies adoption catalog is a component of the larger ebaybies: Genuine & Lasting Friends conceptual print project.

Specifications: toner print interior, archival pigment print cover.
8.5″ x 5.5″
Year: 2004
Price: $20

Project Information:  
ebaybies are intaglio prints. There are 30 different ebaybies. 

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.  

ebaybies have been rescued from the harsh realities of electronic commerce: commodity, novelty, ownership, capital, collections, and shipping. These small edition, hand printed, original fine art prints are available for adoption into loving homes. Each ebaybie comes with a Certificate of Rescue.  

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 Monographs
José Arenas
Diane Cassidy
Kent Manske

Artist’s Books
and change became
Compass
Corpus Animare
Foodies
Gray Matter Gardening
Hello Catty!
Knowledge
Over It
Pattern Recognition
Positioning
Reading 11.12.13
San Francisco Bay
Ten Amazing Human Inventions
The Circus
The Future
Unknowing

Conceptual Books
CSI: Las Vegas
CSI: New York City
ebaybies
Swirl

Exhibition Catalogs
Assumptions
Conceptually Bound
Earth Science Art
You are the Tree

Artist Interviews
Whirligig