Peg Test
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| Dimensions | 4 × 4 × 4 in |
|---|
Square-tube steel sections with arrested patina enclose a flat black wooden ball and a pool ball, welded in place.
$500
The pegboard test was designed in 1948 and originally intended to assess the manual dexterity of assembly line workers. Many have mistakenly assumed this to be an intelligence test, when it is not. While in the US, there are fewer assembly line jobs, these bookends explore the idea of assumptions about the meaning of objects and ourselves and their place in the world, when we have begun to discover that an infinite number of potential responses can answer the questions that we assumed to have a highly constrained set of possible answers. The peg test was meant to define the limits and value of a worker, yet here as bookends they form an arbitrary boundary to knowledge and ideas.
