"Two Churns" is a pair of artifacts: one aged oak barrel with a protruding hardwood handle and one hemispherical iMac computer with a chrome handle. Referencing an interpretive object at a living history site, the wooden butter churn sports an "authentic" old-time logo on its side, which reads, "I Cannot Believe It's Not Butter". This churn, it seems, is the absurd antecedent to today's mass-market faux butter. The Apple computer references a churn only in proximity to its surreal sibling through formal similarities. The computer's neck becomes a seductive churning lever, and the activation of this technology now references material rather than immaterial (virtual) transformation. When "powered up" the Apple Butter churn now turns cream into butter rather than 0s and 1s into or . "Two Churns" presents a pair of objects that enact a strange and futile search for identity in a transitional world of technological development.
