A plant serviceman, cleans, trims, prunes, waters and exchanges rented plants. I'm dusting a fiddle-leaf fig plant at the Trans-America building observation floor. I'm totally content with what I'm doing now.
Bill Owens
American, born 1938
Details
Title
A plant serviceman, cleans, trims, prunes, waters and exchanges rented plants. I'm dusting a fiddle-leaf fig plant at the Trans-America building observation floor. I'm totally content with what I'm doing now.
Artist/Maker
Bill Owens (American, born 1938)
Date
1976, printed 2006
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Contact the museum for more information
Credit
Gift of Philip A. Bernstein and Luisa Recalcati
Accession #
2020.379
Location
Currently not on view
More from this Artist
I gross over $200,000 a year as the owner-manager of a donut store, but there’s a price to pay. I come to work at 2:00 A.M. to begin the daily routine of making 250 dozen donuts. I eat dinner at 4:00 in the afternoon and am in bed by 7:30. I was a Depression baby. Now kids say there has to be something better. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
Bill Owens
America is the best country in the world. In Azores we’d go to the movies and America would seem like a dream. We came here with fifty dollars in our pocket and worked twelve hours a day, six days a week to save money to buy this dry-cleaning business. America is better than we thought. We have everything we ever wanted
Bill Owens
My goal at the end of the race is to beat at least one ten-year-old kid or one little old lady. 10K race, Livermore, California
Bill Owens
When school is out we sunbathe all day and dance all night. Camelback Mountains, Phoenix, Arizona
Bill Owens