• About her series Momentarily, which includes this work, the artist wrote: “There is an ever-present, yet always changing still life of a sort that occurs on my kitchen table. The set-ups are brief and temporary – the top of the table becomes a site for staging a take-out dinner, grocery bags, and the daily mail. Quickly, these objects exit the stage and are discarded. However, these disposable objects can also suggest a different sense of time. Immediately after their intended use, they become useless and disposable. But, as materials, they often last longer than their intended lifespans.”

• According to Nam, students worked with her on this sculpture: “The bags were printed by the printmaking students at Northern Illinois University, when I was a visiting artist there [2016]… Often when schools invite a printmaking artist, they might ask the artist to make an edition of prints with the students, and this one is one of the prints that I made with them.”